Puppy Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution, has just released version 3.0 a significant upgrade that features a number of enhancements. Perhaps the most noteworthy change is a fix for issues when ...

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check ...

Puppy Linux is a distro I keep coming back to. No matter how entrenched I become with any flavor of Ubuntu — sans the Unity desktop — or Linux Mint’s Cinnamon and KDE desktops, nothing can beat the ...

Q. I have an old laptop (64Mb memory, 6Gb disk), which I was hoping to bring back to life with Puppy Linux, featured in your Boot Camp series of articles. I burnt a CD and tried it on my main computer ...

These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.