March 27th, 2009 at 2:12 pm » Comments (0)

On Black Friday 2008 I purchased the Maxtor OneTouch for $60, about half of its normal retail price. Its intended use was to store downloaded books, movies and operating system ...more »

March 24th, 2009 at 5:47 pm » Comments (0)

In a previous article I mentioned that a livecd image booted from a USB flash drive is not the same as a Linux distribution installed to a flash drive. This ...more »

March 20th, 2009 at 9:47 am » Comments (0)

ISO 9660 The ISO 9660 standard was developed over 20 years ago. It is the official standard for CD-ROM. A physical CD conforming to the standard can be read by any ...more »

March 13th, 2009 at 4:32 pm » Comments (0)

Lightweight Distributions A lightweight distribution is one that requires minimal memory and fewer system resources. Some popular examples are Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, and Puppy. There are several reasons that you ...more »

March 11th, 2009 at 2:58 pm » Comments (0)

A controversial (see all the comments)  article on tuxmachines.org caught my interest. It was another salvo in the never ending GNOME vs. KDE war. In the past I have tried ...more »

March 4th, 2009 at 3:40 pm » Comments (0)

Knoppix has released version 6 of their "small" distribution. You can find a download link here. As you know, Knoppix was either the first or amongst the first to be ...more »