This comprehensive guide to lightweight Linux distros for aging PCs recommends Q4OS Trinity for low-spec machines, running ...

Your old laptop isn't dead yet.

Void Linux won’t be the right distro for everyone, but on old hardware, its lean design can feel like a second life.

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

I noticed a trend in the reader response e-mails to an earlier newsletter sampling various Linux distributions that can boot up from a USB keychain. Here are some of the comments I received: * “Puppy ...