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 ...

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 ...

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.

When buying a new computer or laptop, the latest operating system is often already installed. If not, and you have the original media that the OS is on, you can perform the installation yourself. For ...

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 ...