My dying Dell Inspiron runs like new with this forgotten Linux distro.

A Raspberry Pi multiboot lets you pick Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, or MX Linux at startup without changing SD cards. If you own a Raspberry Pi, you can start several operating systems from a single boot ...

There are a bunch of tools that let you load an operating system onto a USB flash drive, allowing you to boot from that drive and either run or install the OS. But most of those tools are only ...

PC BIOS maker Phoenix on Tuesday is announcing its own operating system, of a sort: Hyperspace, a “pre-boot” environment that allows you to get your PC up and on the Web in seconds, instead of the ...

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 ...

It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still ...

Over the past few months we’ve seen a lot of action in the “quick boot” operating system space. DeviceVM’s SplashTop and Phoenix’s HyperSpace have been leading the pack, at least in terms of publicity ...

Booting from CD is one of those computer functions that everyone seems to assume you know how to do. Watch this video, then read this quick tip, and you too will know. You may be able to just boot ...

When you start up your computer, the BIOS scans the memory and checks the video adapter before searching the hard drives for a bootable operating system. If you have a misconfigured hard drive or one ...