So you've decided to give Linux a shot, and you've found a distribution that suits you. But how do you actually get it installed? Here, we'll show you how to create a live CD or USB drive, boot into ...

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The London-based British Linux distributor Canonical has just released Ubuntu 23.10 (“Mantic Minotaur”), the latest version of its extremely popular Linux distribution, which is mainly aimed at ...

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Installing Ubuntu on a Windows computer is no different from dual-booting any operating system. In fact, it's easier than most, because Ubuntu is designed to be one of the most straight forward of ...

The Intel Compute Stick is a tiny computer that lets you run desktop apps on a TV when you plug the stick into an HDMI port. Intel offers Windows and Ubuntu Linux versions of the Compute Stick: but ...

So, you've been hearing all this buzz about Ubuntu for a while now and you finally want to take it for a spin? While dual booting Ubuntu with Windows is fairly straightforward, it can seem like a ...

So you want to run Ubuntu Linux on an Intel Compute Stick, but don’t want to buy the model that comes with Ubuntu pre-loaded… because it also has half the RAM and one fourth as much storage as the ...