I recently built a new computer, and I have 2 hard drives installed, one for win7 and one for ubuntu.<BR><BR>I installed win7 first on one drive, then I unplugged the power to that drive and installed ...

Written by J.A. Watson, Contributor Nov. 19, 2009 at 1:21 a.m. PT I got some good news in a comment over on "href="http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/blogger/J.A ...

So, periodically, I like to do side by side analysis of different Linux distros. Latest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Maybe some others. Specifically comparison as a desktop environment. I ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Canonical has reversed its decision to drop Ubuntu's GRUB 2 bootloader in favor of EFILinux on ...

Users with dual-boot setups running both Linux and Windows may encounter boot issues following a recent Windows update. This problem affects many Linux distributions, causing systems to fail during ...

Operating system maintainers, computer manufacturers, security and virtualization software vendors have worked together over the past few months to coordinate a unified response to a vulnerability ...

Recently I came into a situation where all of my virtual machines were failing to reach the WAN. After some troubleshooting, I discovered that, for whatever reason, an update to the router on my ...

Windows 8 PCs will come with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot. This "feature" will make it much harder to boot Linux or other operating systems. Canonical, Ubuntu ...

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