I just installed Tiny Linux, a stripped down slackware installation....no GUI on my old 486 laptop. I would like to install GNU's "make". I downloaded the make-3.79.1.tar.gz file and have no idea of ...

With ever increasing sizes of various programs (video games being notorious for this), the question of size optimization comes up more and more often. [Nathan Otterness] shows us how it’s done by ...

I'm running TINY linux (based on Slackware) in my IBM Thinkpad 355CS 486/33 Mhz 20 mb RAM. I'm am completely new to the Linux OS (I learn as I go) but I'm currently stumped on how to get X to fire up.

These distros can make your machine scream.

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I've been using Linux on old hardware, and it taught me one thing very quickly: bloated applications slow everything down. Still, because I use fossil hardware, I'm always on the lookout for tools to ...

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

The linux-tiny project was started by Matt Mackall in December 2003 with the aim to “ collect patches that reduce kernel disk and memory footprint as well as tools for working on small systems. ” LWN ...

Last week we were talking about Damn Small Linux, but before we continue on with that we need to mention a few other items. First, you will remember from two weeks ago that the standard configuration ...