Over the past few weeks several people have asked me if it's possible to set up a Windows XP/Linux dual-boot system on a PC that already has Windows XP installed on it, and if it's possible, how easy ...

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed. Dual booting requires that space be made on the hard ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

When we installed Linux on Intel’s Haswell NUC, the biggest problem we encountered involved booting the computer after the install process was complete. We’ve been talking with Intel’s NUC team since ...

Original story: Security researchers have uncovered rare malware that can infect a Linux machine’s boot process, making it harder to detect and remove. The malware is known as a bootkit, which is ...

You may not have to reboot Linux very often. But when you do, these peppy distributions will have you up and running in a matter of seconds. Reboots tend to be rare with Linux. Usually, they’re due to ...

Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, ...

A problem with a kernel driver for Samsung laptops has caused numerous users to find their machines “bricked” after trying to boot Linux on them. That’s according to several reports on the Ubuntu ...

The Augen E-Go is billed as a Netbook that ships with Windows CE. [Moogle] got it to boot the Linux kernel after a bit of hardware snooping. He found a UART connector on the main board and discovered ...