Original story: Security researchers have uncovered rare malware that can infect a Linux machine’s boot process, making it harder to detect and remove. The malware is known as a bootkit, which is ...

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 ...

Linux developers are in the process of patching a high-severity vulnerability that, in certain cases, allows the installation of malware that runs at the firmware level, giving infections access to ...

UPDATE 11/28: A student in South Korea claims BootyKitty is merely a research project that has no malicious motives behind it. "We are students studying in South Korea. We don't know how this PoC ...

With Windows 10 going away soon, many of us are considering jumping ship to Linux. Thankfully, you don't have to ditch Windows entirely to start using Linux; running two OSes is easier than you think.

A computer science student at Purdue University has managed to boot Linux using Google Drive. This project began as a fun challenge to match a peer’s success in booting Linux from NFS (Network File ...

That's good advice, and I'm happy to follow it. If all we do is sit around and moan about dual-booting Linux on UEFI systems, it really is likely to discourage some people from trying it, and the ...

You may not have to reboot Linux very often. But when you do, these peppy distributions will have you up and running in a matter of seconds. Reboots tend to be rare with Linux. Usually, they’re due to ...