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 ...

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 ...

I have installed Debian via USB hard drive (since I do not have an optical drive). For some reason when I load Linux via rEFIt it just sits at the Linux penguin. Teasing me. This is monumentally ...

My Surface laptop finally started showing its age, and try as I might, there wasn’t much I could do to improve its performance. So I took the ultimate step: I installed Linux on a Microsoft Surface ...

That is a really nice configuration, especially at that price. The unfortunate news is, of course, that it came preloaded with Windows 10 Home. But that didn't last long. I let the Windows setup ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows might be your bread and butter, but you can dual-boot it with Linux if you want to tinker, or play around with a wider range of open source software. Whether you're using Windows 10 or Windows ...