You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

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To install Linux Mint on your VMware Workstation, begin by creating a new virtual machine within the software, selecting your ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical ...

Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

Quilter's AI designed a working 843-component Linux computer in 38 hours—a task that typically takes engineers 11 weeks. Here's how they did it.

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A bus standard introduced by HP in 1972 has finally gained stable Linux driver support, more than fifty years after its initial release. HP created the interface to link laboratory instruments with ...