How-To Geek on MSN

There's no such thing as a beginner Linux distro (and there never will be)

Of course, in the real world, at least for now, most people are coming from Windows. Which means you can have distros that ...
Ars Technica

Benefits of customizing kernel vs off the shelf distro

I'm a pretty new person to Linux/UNIX world, less than two years work experience. Right now I'm playing with Gentoo, and overall customization of a distro to fit your needs. I understand why you would ...
Linux Journal

Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building the Kernel

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...