Booting into Kolibri OS . Kolibri OS comes in multiple versions and the smallest of those is a floppy disk image that only weighs 1.4MB. I downloaded the floppy disk image off the ...

Tiny Core Linux is a true example of just how small a functional desktop operating system can be, even in 2025.

We’ve had something of an anniversary of late, and it’s one that will no doubt elicit a variety of reactions from our community. It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

If you are considering which is the best operating system for your Raspberry Pi project or to use the mini PC as an everyday computer. The Raspberry Pi OS is the go-to for many. It’s the official ...

A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed. A new-cloud based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed by researchers in China. Details of the ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

In the latter part of 1977, Ken Olsen, president of the then-powerful Digital Equipment Corporation, dismissed the idea of the PC, saying “there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home ...