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Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite fully featured. Puppy boots into a 48 - 54M ramdisk, and that's it, the whole caboodle runs in RAM. Unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, Puppy in his entirety loads into RAM. This means that most applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy can boot off different media: flash-Puppy (Puppy booting off a flash card or any USB memory device), live-Puppy (Puppy booting off a CDROM), zippy-Puppy (Puppy booting off a Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk), floppy-Puppy (Puppy booting off a set of floppy disks), hard-Puppy (Puppy booting off an internal hard drive).
SaxenOS is a lightweight Slackware and Zenwalk-based distribution with the Xfce desktop. It is designed for older, low-specification computers.
STX Linux is a desktop Linux distribution especially targeted to older hardware. It also works quite well on new PC's. Overview: Complete Linux Desktop. Lightweight (about 1.25 GB installed, 421 MB ISO). Slackware based. Works nicely on old Hardware. Harddisk Installer from Pocketlinux. The desktop looks very much like Windows 98/ME/2000.
VectorLinux is a small, fast, Intel Linux operating system based on one of the original Linux distributions, Slackware. Vectorlinux provides a variety of features for the casual computer user. The power user will be pleased that all the tools are there to compile their own programs. Administrators will be equally as pleased due to the small size and memory requirements of the operating system.
Xubuntu is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Unlike its parent, however, Xubuntu uses the light-weight XFce desktop environment and is optimised for lower-end machines. The distribution includes only GTK+ applications where possible.
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A User's First Look at GNOME 2.0
GNOME 2.0 was released less than two days ago and while I was using its betas on and off, for some time now, I was anticipating this final release with impatience.
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Linux cryptography attacks seen in the wild
Active attacks against Linux systems using the Secure Shell encryption protocol have been reported by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
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Five tricks of the PHP trade for better code... In this article I'll give a few examples of powerful ways to program PHP that aren't obvious to many.
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Dell Puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for Emerging Markets
Dell unveiled Wednesday two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises , governments, and educational institutions in emerging markets in ...
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Linux end-user summit planned
Event scheduled for October in New York City is intended to bring together users, senior Linux developers The Linux Foundation on Wednesday plans to announce an event enabling Linux users to interact with the ...
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Embedded Linux guide updated
O'Reilly has updated its guide to Building Embedded Linux Systems by Karim Yaghmour.
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Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys.
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Dolphin Community Builder - build your own Facebook with this open source software
Megite is the social news aggregrator for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs.
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Is Ubuntu Really the Most User-Friendly Distribution?
What exactly are the characteristics of user-friendliness? And does stressing user-friendliness mean ignoring other values -- perhaps equally important ones? August 25, 2008 By Bruce Byfield : UPDATED: For ...