Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI ...

I have been struggling for quite some time now to set up multi-boot support on a new HP Pavilion dm1-4310ez sub-notebook that came preloaded with Windows 8, UEFI, and gpt disk partitioning. During ...

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed. Dual booting requires that space be made on the hard ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. A high-rated security vulnerability in the Secure Boot ...

The firmware ' UEFI ' installed in the PC has a mechanism called 'Secure Boot'. Secure Boot verifies the signature of the program that is executed before the OS starts, and protects the device by ...

Operating system maintainers, computer manufacturers, security and virtualization software vendors have worked together over the past few months to coordinate a unified response to a vulnerability ...

After covering setting up dual-boot XP/Linux and Vista/Linux systems (where Windows was installed first), I decided it was time to take a look at how easy it is to install Vista onto a PC where a ...

Hi All:<BR><BR>Yes, I'm posting again. The good news is that its not<BR>related to XFree86. I downloaded and installed Mandrake 8.2<BR>today. <BR><BR>As with all things I do, something went ...

MontaVista Software has always been a leader in embedded-Linux commercialization. The company has developed Linux-development platforms since 1999, when founder Jim Ready pledged to bring “100% pure ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...