In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for anyone to use and modify however they like, the operating system has been put to a lot of uses. Today, a vast number of ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

Can someone explain to me how to make a corel linux boot disk, so instead of making a duel boot system, I can just use the boot disk when I want to use Linux. On the corel website, it says to format a ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

Hi everyone - <BR>I am trying to setup a Win2k / Linux (I am using RH6.2 for now, but want to switch to SuSE 7.2) machine on a single 40GB drive. The issue is that ...

Even if you have Windows installed, you can still start your PC with all kinds of other systems to fix issues, play games, try out new operating system, back up your data and more. Better yet, all of ...

Part 1 of this two-part series discusses ways to transition into Linux without leaving Windows behind all at once. Six months ago, I began a self-imposed experiment to see if I couldsurvive leaving ...

Is it possible to write to an NTFS partition after booting a PC with a Linux boot disk? I have a PC with a corrupt ntldr file on the C: drive that won't boot into Windows. I started the machine with ...