Installing Ubuntu on a Windows computer is no different from dual-booting any operating system. In fact, it's easier than most, because Ubuntu is designed to be one of the most straight forward of ...

A beta version of Valve's gaming operating system is now available for download. Here's how you can transform your current computer into a Steam Machine. Dan Graziano is an associate editor for CNET.

Formatting a hard drive along with the install of a new OS is the best option. The vast majority of operating system installations provide a "format" option as part of the installation process.

Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now ...

Google’s Chrome OS has been gaining much attention lately due to its ease of use and overall functionality. In fact, Chromebooks cover the majority of the education ...

ChromeOS is a very light operating system. Google has been working hard at promoting their own Chromebook tablets that work on this ChromeOS operating system and is directly competing with Microsoft’s ...

Building a Hackintosh from scratch—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Mac hardware—has never been easier, and the final product has never performed better. Here's how it works. There's no such thing ...

Remix OS is a custom version of Android designed to make Google’s mobile operating system feel like a desktop OS. Initially only available as an operating system that came pre-installed on hardware, ...

It’s not pleasant seeing a once-beloved laptop (or desktop) computer slowly slide into obsolescence as it gets too old and tired to keep up with the demands of modern-day computing, but Google has now ...

Apple presented OS X El Capitan (10.11) on Wednesday, Sept. 30. The latest operating system for Mac is based on the smart user-interface design that users first encountered in OS X Yosemite. A couple ...