In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

We're platform agnostic at Lifehacker, which is why we love dual-and triple-booting our computers. Unfortunately sharing data between operating systems can be a huge headache. Here's how to stay ...

Void Linux is a unique and highly customizable Linux distribution that stands out due to its independence from other distributions and its use of the runit init system instead of systemd. This guide ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...