Once you've got your live USB, boot to your USB drive in your PC's BIOS, and your Linux distro will boot up. You could extend ...

If you’ve been wanting to try Linux, whether because you’re worried about privacy in Windows 10, don’t like Microsoft’s “ignore what users want” approach or want to stay out of Apple’s walled garden, ...

Taking your first steps into the world of Linux can be a scary proposition. After all, we have a whole new world of terminal commands, desktop environments and applications to learn. Thankfully Linux ...

In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was ...

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check ...

In the realm of computing, the choice between operating systems often feels like a crossroads. Each path—Windows with its widespread application support and user-friendly interface, and Linux with its ...

Windows only: Free application uSbuntu Live Creator installs a Live CD from an ISO image onto your USB flash drive—much more useful, portable, and easy to deal with than carrying around a CD. Once you ...

Live CDs, DVDs or USB drives let you run Linux without actually installing it. Here are five reasons why you should. In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...

Another day, another bootable USB Linux distro. While last week's FingerGear flash drive was billed as a "computer on a stick," the new Ubuntu H2 from Pertec is being touted as "the first Linux ...