Some operating systems can be a pain in the rear to install if you don’t happen to have an optical disc drive for your computer. But if you’re trying to install most Linux-based operating system such ...

The best way to learn Linux is to use it. A good introductory book will help, but you won’t really learn Linux or become confident in your skills unless you park yourself in front of a Linux system ...

Installing Ubuntu from a USB drive on an older machine is easy if you have one key bit of information ... After a few extremely frustrating hours trying to install Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, the latest ...

In the past two weeks I have used UNetbootin to install Linux Mint Debian Edition and PCLinuxOS 2010.7, and both worked without a hitch. The only distribution that I have had any trouble with at all ...

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check ...