Normally when OS X boots you see gray and blue screens rather than the output of the system's load process. To see this process you need to manually invoke verbose mode. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor ...

If you experience startup problems after installing an incremental Mac OS X update, it's logically important to check items that load at startup for conflict with updated components in the new release ...

Dual booting is a great way to get the best of both worlds of Windows and Linux. It’s relatively straightforward to install the two operating systems alongside each other, and it's also a great ...

Windows and Mac OS X don't always get along so well when they're required to co-exist on the same drive, but that doesn't mean they can't. Hackintosh master tonymacx86 outlines the best practices for ...

Also known as the setting up phase, this is the second phase in the Windows upgrade process. During this phase, a backup of the downlevel OS is created to switch to the old OS if required. This ...

Ever since the first Google Chrome OS laptops came into existence, hackers have been trying to figure out how to load Ubuntu and other Linux distributions onto the machines. After all, the Chromebooks ...

In our last article, we discussed the motivation for wanting boot time reduction. As discussed, we are trying to create as "instantly on" an experience as we can for in-car computers. We're taking a ...