A Raspberry Pi multiboot lets you pick Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, or MX Linux at startup without changing SD cards.

Some of the hints for older, unsupported OSes apply equally to both Mac and Windows. Both come with an assortment of bundled ...

Pear OS has had a bit of history. It started out as a Debian-based Linux distribution called Pear OS. Then, out of nowhere, it was renamed Comice OS. The rename gremlins struck again, and it was back ...

Kali Linux, a popular Linux distribution for cybersecurity research and penetration testing, just revealed the Kali Linux ...

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates ...

Switching to Linux can be challenging. But once you've overcome the learning curve, you'll find that Linux offers a more ...

Extended Security Updates (ESUs) are available, Microsoft recommends migrating to Windows 11. Meanwhile, the developers of the Linux distribution Zorin OS revealed that the latest version, Zorin OS 18 ...

Some Linux distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, possibly others) have BOINC installation packages. The advantages of installing via the package manager are: the resulting BOINC installation runs ...

It’s been too long since I spent a meaningful amount of time using Linux, but the recent release of Zorin OS 18 inspired me to do so this week. So far, the experience has been overwhelmingly positive, ...

Windows 10 died a few days ago, leaving users with three options: stick with the OS, upgrade to Windows 11, or switch to an entirely different platform like macOS or GNU/Linux. But months before ...

Thanks to our old friend Ken Gruberman, who wrote on TidBITS Talk in response to “When Should You Upgrade to Apple’s OS 26 Releases?” (15 September 2025): If ...