A push is under way to endow Linux with a virtual partitioning technology used by rival operating systems to make servers more efficient. SWsoft is trying to get OpenVZ made part of the mainstream ...

Operating systems, such as Linux, provides partitioning software to resize partitions without any data loss. It's possible to resize a partition using Gparted in an easy and a convenient way. Gparted ...

Hello Linux forum.<BR>I have SUSE linux installed on the end of my HD, but I haven't got into it very much and need to grab back most of the 7Gb+ space I assigned to it. The LILO is on a floppy. Is it ...

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume Manager is ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

When I first started using computers I began with windows something-or-other which formats the drive and then installs the os simple as that. Therefore, I always assumed that when formating windows ...

If the command line, package managers, and troubleshooting don’t scare you anymore, you might be ready to try Arch Linux.

Linux-Windows dual boot systems don't have an easy way to access Linux files while booted into Windows. Some tools exist, but they don't offer perfect solutions. I've found using a shared partition ...

You have data on your machines. Some of that data might be in the form of sensitive company or client information. Should that particular information fall into the wrong hands, well, you know that ...

Effort is under way to get virtualization into the Linux kernel, so it can catch up with rival OSes in server efficiency. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...