Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

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 ...

You don't need to reinstall your whole operating system just because you forgot your Linux login. It's actually pretty easy ...

Alrighty, so I'm trying to dual boot and I've got to do some really funkey crap to do this. The end result is I wans Ubuntu and Vista on my machine. Unfortunately I apparently only have non-bootable ...

The following is a continuation of a series of columns on Linux disasters and how to recover from them, inspired in part by a Halloween Linux Journal Live episode ...