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 ...

A colleague at work has 20+ scsi disks from pc's and sun's which need wiping before chucking, sizes vary from 11 MB (!) to I guess 2 GB. He needs a way to easily wipe them, I suggested a linux boot ...

I want to install Suse 6.1 on a very old PC I have here, but the machine doesn't support booting from the cd-rom, is there a generic cd-rom access boot disk I can create? I can't find anything on the ...

Dual-booting isn't necessary to try full-fat Linux on your PC ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. You've got one of these lying around. Just make it has a 4GB ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

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 ...

Truths about dual booting I learned the hard way.

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...