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 ...

And even once you have NTFS support, things can still go wrong. If Windows hibernation or Fast Startup is enabled, the partition stays “locked,” and Linux will refuse to mount it to prevent corruption ...

Are you tired of your operating system dictating what you can and can’t do with your PC or laptop? Are you tired of your operating system dictating what you can and can’t do with your PC or laptop?

After covering setting up dual-boot XP/Linux and Vista/Linux systems (where Windows was installed first), I decided it was time to take a look at how easy it is to install Vista onto a PC where a ...

If you're a Linux user who happens to dual-boot with Windows, you should exercise extreme caution when upgrading to the just-released Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Not long after Microsoft's latest ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...