I recently got a 500GB Samsung T7 USB hard drive which I would like to use for a while at least to toy/experiment with linux distributions. Problem is, it seems fairly difficult to actually install ...

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 ...

Trying to install Ubuntu server on a hardware raid 1 array instead of the native linux software raid. The easiest method I found was to use a USB drive to host the bootloader. I'm sure there are ...

What do you use your USB flash drive for? Have you considered running Linux from it? A Linux Live USB flash drive is a great way to try out Linux without making any changes to your computer. It's also ...

March 3, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google So you've decided to give Linux a shot, and you've found a distribution that suits you. But how do you actually ...

With the release of Windows 8 Enterprise, users finally have the opportunity to run Windows from a USB storage device -- just so long as they own the product license for the operating system. If you ...

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