Follow along with this step-by-step guide to creating your own distribution. In an article in the June 2018 issue of LJ, I introduced a basic recipe for building your own minimal Linux-based ...

I've had this idea in my head ever since User-Mode Linux first released- I want to build a bare system that will handle hardware access and allocation, so that I can build and destroy guest systems ...

Does a full install even install the compat-* packages that Oracle needs? I'm leaning towards no, but I'm not totally sure. If not, then you're not gaining anything by doing a full install.

The first name on the list, Puppy Linux is a must-try Linux distro for low-end PC users. It is renowned for its extremely small size and minimal system requirement. The distro is designed to run ...