Logic PD's Zip technology allows Linux to boot in under 1 second. Technology Editor Bill Wong talked with Kurt Larson, Director of Product Management, about how Logic PD managed this feat. Fast boot ...

A Raspberry Pi multiboot lets you pick Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, or MX Linux at startup without changing SD cards.

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 ...

I'm going to start this post by saying something that a lot of people will find surprising. There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process. I think it is an ...

The world of Linux is ready to welcome you, with a shower of free open-source software you can use on any PC: hundreds of active Linux distributions, and dozens of different desktop environments you ...

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 ...

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. And today’s desktop Linux distributions ...

You have got your shiny new Windows 11/10 computer. You have been using it for a while now, and everything is fine. Then, without any warning, your hard disk drive or solid-state drive fails. The ...