Taking your first steps into the world of Linux can be a scary proposition. After all, we have a whole new world of terminal commands, desktop environments and applications to learn. Thankfully Linux ...

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons.

For those who aren't sure what a "package manager" is, it's a special part of Linux that usually comes pre-installed with the ...

Are you sure you placed the boot partition at the beginning of the disk with fdisk (or cfdisk...) when you installed it? If memory serves me there is an option in cfdisk as to where to place the ...

Long story short - I've got my Mum's old iMac which is a Core i5 2500S vintage machine. 12GB RAM, 1TB spinning drive. Still quite a nice unit, screen is still good, so trying to see if we can make use ...