Linux only: If you're diligent about applying patches to your Ubuntu PC, you'll soon notice an annoying problem—the boot menu keeps growing bigger every time a kernel patch is installed. Here's how to ...

Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here's how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect ...

In the first article of this series, I explained the fundamentals behind the Libreboot free software BIOS project and why you might want to replace your BIOS with it. I followed up by describing how ...

On many Linux systems the boot process sees the usual BIOS screen, followed by Grub. The Grand Unified Bootloader (Grub) takes over from our BIOS and offers the user a choice of OS options and kernel ...

When Ubuntu changed to Grub 2 a couple of releases ago, it became significantly more difficult to set up multi-boot Linux systems. Most if not all Ubuntu derivatives are also using Grub2, and now the ...

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I usually never post in this forum.<br><br>I have/had a dual boot machine consisting of Windows XP (my main OS), and a 10GB partition running Ubuntu ...

With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first” desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked ...

So here's something I've been beating my head against. I need to come up with a way to get client computers to PXE boot -- and automatically install -- Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop. So far, I've gotten to a ...

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 ...