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Specialty Linuxes to the rescue
November 17, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 1 year ago
By: Rick Grehan
By: Rick Grehan
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In this article, we examine three kinds of "Linux as tool" distributions that can help you in a pinch: small-footprint Linuxes, whose boot and runtime images fit in cramped spaces; Linuxes for old hardware, which are designed to execute on systems you might otherwise push to the back of a closet; and system-rescue Linuxes for recovering lost data from crashed systems.
