Are you considering dual booting Linux and Windows? Do you want to play it safe and avoid potential pitfalls before diving in? After a decade of breaking and fixing my multi-boot setups, I've compiled ...

If you get BeOS personal edition, it will install right in windows. It will take 500mb of space, and you can download it for free. LInux is a bit trickier. You can use Partition magic to resize the ...

For now, until I get another video card to set up and try to work with Xen or KVM to run Linux and Windows side by side. I set up a VM with VMWare Player and pointed it at my drive with Win7 installed ...

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...