Not a new concept, but booting Linux Operating Systems from USB drives keeps getting easier and more robust. Here is a look at the Test Center's favorite four flash-drive bootable Linux distributions.

Dillo was my third and final try. Dillo is the smallest, most lightweight web browser. It made browsing on Tiny Core ...

If your PC is truly broken, SystemRescue is often the first and last tool you need. It’s designed from the ground up for recovery work: filesystem repair, partitioning, disk imaging, bootloader fixes, ...

Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...