Like on many portable devices with custom operating systems, Android runs on top of Linux. Apps run as separate users, and have very limited visibility to Linux’s underlying pseudo-filesystem. You may have heard of ‘container’ software on desktop systems, such … Continue reading →

If you’re using an ultra-low power system with a VIA x86-64 CPU for Tiny Core Linux, chances are the video chip is also made by VIA. There are no hardware-accelerated display drivers readily available for the pure 64-bit version of … Continue reading →

It is fairly well known that you can boot Linux from read-only media, such as a DVD. This works by booting the OS normally, but uses an invisible, writable overlay stored in RAM to make changes to its pseudo-file system. … Continue reading →