Most people take operating system size for granted — until the moment it matters. Maybe you have a decade-old machine collecting dust in a corner, and you're hoping you'll find an operating system ...

You may think of operating systems as something you install once and leave on a hard drive. But not every OS needs to tie itself down to a machine. Portable operating ...

A fresh entry has just appeared in the world of Linux distributions: Loss32, a lightweight operating system built from scratch with one goal in mind — giving old and low-resource computers a new lease ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Zephix version 8 has just been released, with the lightweight Linux distro taking a new approach. The OS still focuses on simplicity and speed but moves away from a modular system. With i3 chosen as ...