This week's release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it ...

Creating a bootable USB drive is a cornerstone skill for anyone interested in exploring different operating systems or working in system administration. A bootable USB drive allows a user to boot into ...

These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check ...

Want to boot Ubuntu, Fedora, Clonezilla, or another operating system from a USB flash drive? There are a number of tools designed to help you burn a disc image to a flash drive, but a new utility ...

There are a bunch of tools that let you load an operating system onto a USB flash drive, allowing you to boot from that drive and either run or install the OS. But most of those tools are only ...

I recently got a new Acer Aspire V5-131 sub-notebook. In the previous post I went through the process of configuring Windows 8 and then upgrading to Windows 8.1 Update. With that done, I'm ready to ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: With so many live operating systems available you have plenty of choices for making bootable live USB drives. And to top it all, you have installation CD/DVDs which you want to ...