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Free Software Magazine: "SliTaz comes to market with one selling point and one only: Size. It weights in at 24.8Mb.

No, that's not a typo. I'll repeat that: 24.8Mb. If you thought Damn Small Linux (DSL) and Puppy Linux were small—and they are—think again.

DSL is approximately 50MB and Puppy tips the scales at anywhere between 62 and 138MB depending on the version you choose."

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Jun 2006 16:05 UTC, submitted by _DoubleThink_ This paper tries to compare Linux vs.

Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like ...

Vyatta announced that its Debian Linux-based x86 routing distribution can scale to environments running at 10Gbps.

Vyatta says that PCs running the software can replace 10Gbps-capable systems from proprietary vendors, while costing "a small fraction" of what some vendors charge for 10Gbps add-in cards