Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics for over twenty years and is an avid promoter of open source. For more ...

So, I'm getting ready to do a home network build out from scratch, and I'm seeking some opinions, specifically on routers/firewalls. I've used Opnsense and PFsense in the past, and am considering ...

Ever since the rise of the personal computer, we've seen multiple different ways to interact with computers, including a variety of different operating systems. It's hard to believe that operating ...

To install Google TV on a USB drive, flash the Google TV ISO to a 16GB or larger USB using Rufus, set maximum persistence, then convert the persistence partition to exFAT. Move system.sfs and data.img ...

What if you could package an entire operating system, its applications, and every dependency into a single, unchangeable unit—ready to deploy anywhere, from a remote IoT sensor to a sprawling hybrid ...

Running Windows completely off of a USB flash drive is quite handy if you want to try a newer or older version of Windows without affecting your current system. The USB drive can also serve as a ...

You know you’ve got a serious PC problem when your computer refuses to get through even the first phase of startup properly. If you can't get into Windows or macOS at all, then your troubleshooting ...

Apple's latest macOS Sequoia 15.3 update appears to have resolved a bug that prevented popular backup utility SuperDuper from creating bootable backups, according to developer Dave Nanian. The fix ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to help Windows users and admins update bootable media so it utilizes the new "Windows UEFI CA 2023" certificate before the mitigations of the BlackLotus ...

Microsoft has released a new PowerShell script for updating the Windows 11 /10 and Server bootable media for the latest UEFI Secure Boot certificate. Back in February of 2024, Microsoft announced that ...

Rufus is an open-source program that creates bootable USB sticks for Windows installation and more. Compared to Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool, Rufus offers many more options for configuration setup.