Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions now use the GRUB2 boot loader. You can change its settings to select a default operating system, set a background image, and choose how long GRUB counts down ...

I've gotten several comments and questions pertaining to my GRUB posting last week. The most common question was about graphical boot configuration but there were also one or two others, so I'm going ...

So, periodically, I like to do side by side analysis of different Linux distros. Latest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Maybe some others. Specifically comparison as a desktop environment. I ...

Last year I worked on a project to add an OEM-style rescue partition to a computer. Where most OEM installs have a custom program that just rewrites an install image over the top of the partition, in ...