Bill Andad writes: Two headlines grabbed my attention today. The first proclaiming that Linux sucks while the second announced it was possible to boot into a full Linux OS in less than a single solitary second. Paul Rako reports that one company, an embedded-Linux specialist called MontaVista Software, has gone step further than developing a proper [...]

In the build up to the final release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, the final alpha version i.e. Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 has been released a couple of days ago with a very pleasant change – They have done away with the Usplash! As you might be aware, Canonical is aiming for a 10 seconds [...]

This is the second part of the article, you might like to read Part 1 In previous part of our article “10 Live-CDs worth giving a try”, we had covered five different kinds of Live CDs including both based on Windows and Linux operating systems. Here we present five more, each a kind of it’s [...]

This is the first part of the article, you might like to read Part 2 Live CDs are unique un-putdownables that have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive. Using Live CDs you can get the envirenment of your ever-loved [...]

Plymouth is the new Graphical Boot system of Fedora 10 which replaces the old RHGB boot system. If you have already installed Fedora 10 and are able to see a blue-white bar at the bottom of your monitor/screen while Fedora 10 loads, then Plymouth is actually enabled on your system. You are unable to see [...]

For users who Dual Boot Windows and Linux, accessing files from their linux partitions while in windows has never been a good enough experience. But, we now have many tools that make this problem a cakewalk. Let us see a few of these softwares and their features:

Installing Windows 7  from a USB Memory Stick (or, a Pen/Thumb Drive) is not only a cakewalk but also blazingly faster than the corresponding DVD install. What you will be needing for this memory-stick-based-install is a 4GB USB Memory stick, since the DVD itself is a 2.8GB approx ISO. Remember, you will be able to [...]