Last week I made a side-by-side comparison of Calamares and Ubiquity, the former a non-denominational Linux installer and the latter the Ubuntu installer. This week, since it was just announced that ...

The transition from Windows to Linux can be pretty intimidating. That's why some Linux distros aim to offer a Windows-like ...

Third, I made a Linux Mint 16 XFCE edition live/install USB. Some posts I read indicated this had to be done from a Mac to boot into it correctly, but the one I had lying around that had been prepared ...

I'm not new to Linux, but I am new to this distro, Linux GUI in general (experience is mostly professional Red Hat distro), and this particular hardware. I need to move files from the media drive on ...

Welcome to a new series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm exploring a desktop Linux OS that's been ...