In my previous article, I discussed the things one should consider when purchasing a laptop on which Linux will run. This time I would like discuss a few ways to get the laptop up and running with a ...

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a version ...

What's a minimal install for Linux? 6 reasons it can come in handy ...

I have a X20 IBM laptop, and was going to install Red hat on it since I knew I could copy the iso's on a fat partition and boot the boot disk kernel, also on the fat partition, through grub.

Try either one of the boot floppy distributions, or perhaps Debian. You can get a basic command line Debian install on there without any problems. The thing is, with ...