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 ...

Running Linux from a USB drive is possible. You can boot just about any distribution you want from USB. There are some things you should consider before going this route. I've used Linux in just about ...

These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

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 ...