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Void Linux won’t be the right distro for everyone, but on old hardware, its lean design can feel like a second life.

This shouldn’t work—but it absolutely does.

Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...