Dual Boot Windows/Linux in 2024

When I started playing with Linux, installing a dual boot system was the standard: back in the days we were talking about BIOS, the first 512 bytes of a disk (the Master Boot Record) and Bootloaders like LILO. Today EFI, GPT and Secure Boot have introduced a new layer of complexity and we need to update our knowledge. Let’s do this with this article.
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Git Essentials - Part 1

For some people, learning Git can be a challenge. This series of articles will help new learners and people who has a hard time getting it intuitively
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Review of Slax Linux

After a long time I decided to give another try at Slax Linux. I found a very good page documenting the startup process and some interesting features. Unfortunately there are also negative points.
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How to use a USB stick for both Slackware15-Live and storing data

The traditional method to create a bootable USB stick with an installation of a Linux Live distribution requires to dedicate the full USB stick to that purpose, but the total amount of required space is just few GB and the rest is wasted. This article will describe how to overcome the issue so it is not required anymore to decide the purpose of the device in advance.
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