About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

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 ...

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.

Can someone explain to me how to make a corel linux boot disk, so instead of making a duel boot system, I can just use the boot disk when I want to use Linux. On the corel website, it says to format a ...

These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.