If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

So you've decided to give Linux a shot, and you've found a distribution that suits you. But how do you actually get it installed? Here, we'll show you how to create a live CD or USB drive, boot into ...

When we left our lovely new HP sub-notebook, we had just finished configuring Windows 7 Home Premium. Now it is time to move to installing a real operating system on it, and for the sake of variety ...

Mac hardware supports most versions of the Linux operating system. Thus, you can install Linux on your iMac G5 without erasing Mac OS X from the machine. In fact, with the help of the Boot Camp ...

The “cheap” and “easy” way in about an hour! A question that pop’s up from time to time is “I somehow ended up with an archaic old laptop / computer, can it run Linux?” Well of course it can, but that ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I have a Toshiba A60 - 157 which has a 3.2Ghz P4 with 512mb ram and a 60Gb hardrive. I wanna learn more about linux but need to run windows aswell so i wanna dual boot. I am running XP for ...

Back in the Win 98 days I installed Linux a few times, but had to go back since I was unable to get internet working and the provided documentation was horrible(IMO).I realized that I'd need a second ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. After you've done this, check out my guide to updating your ...

In a March 31 column, I detailed my experiences installing the most recent version of RedHat Linux 5.2. It wasn’t pretty: I couldn’t get my dual-boot system up and running until I opened up my machine ...