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Lenovo took some heat from Linux users a few months ago when it was discovered that some of the company’s recent Windows laptops were configured in a way that blocked them from running Linux or other ...

It's been a month since I wrote about getting a new HP Pavilion 14 laptop and loading Linux on it. My experience with it so far has been extremely good – it has done exactly what I wanted, I haven't ...

Want to resurrect an old PC that’s collecting dust? Wish you could insta-boot your laptop or netbook for a quick peek at your e-mail or a Web page? Presto promises exactly that kind of convenience. It ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Linux first made its way onto the radar in the mid-1990s, one of its most touted advantages was its ability to give ageing ...

The MX Linux default desktop is about as clean as you'll find. MX Linux is the most downloaded Linux desktop distribution, and now I know why Your email has been sent Jack Wallen examines MX Linux to ...

There’s been quite a lot of anticipation for the next version of Linux Mint. The release candidate for Linux Mint 16 (MATE and Cinnamon) is now available for download, according to DistroWatch.

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...

Thanks to Microsoft's Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot there was no easy way to boot Linux, or any other operating system, on Windows 8 PCs. Now, there are two ways, ...