Chainloading an operating system allows grub to boot an opearating system's boot loader. This is commonly used to boot Windows for instance.

I personnaly use it to be able to have my "production" system's grub on the MBR, and address other distros'grub install on their root partition. The advantage is that kernel updates are real easy to handle. Each testing distro modifying their own grub won't interfere with my main OS bootloader.

This tutorial will explain how to configure grub's menu.lst from the main OS to boot other OSes bootloader through an example.

After a number of years in development Linux Test Drive is becoming a reality, from the page:

LTD is a project that has been in development for the last three years. LTD allows the user to determine which distribution best fits their needs utilizing the Linux Distribution Chooser, and then once that is determined, give the user the ability to "test drive" that distribution directly over the Internet, without the need to download. We are currently taking pre-beta registrations for the LTD system.

Hi there,

People used to debuntu might have seen some changed. Debuntu is now runned by Drupal instead of wordpress.

SubtitleEditor-0.10.1, the best subtitle editor for GNU/Linux, has been released.

An update has been released for gaim 2.0.0 beta 3 fixing a crash while trying to connect to MSN account. This seemed to affect mostly Windows users.

Subtitleeditor 0.9.1has been released. This subtitle editor I already told about in previous articles continue its evolution.

Among the new features, we can point out the addition of new subtitle format and the correction of some bugs.

A new release of subtitleeditor, a GTK+2 subtitle editor for linux, is out. Bug fixes from alpha versions, new features...

Quite often, when using program such as smb4k, I encountered the following error:

smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts

This happens because some linux distribution does not configure smbfs properly such as a normal user can mount samba files.

This how-to will show how to simply resolve this issue.

As a user friendly Linux Distribution, the Ubuntu developper are working on an easy access to the ubuntu support channels on freenode.

Ubuntu Live Chat Support is basically a new application that will ask you for a username as well as a password to log into irc.freenode.net. In case you do not have a freenode irc account, it will take you through the required steps to create a new account.

Xgl along with compiz offer new features to the Unix Desktop Environment.

Xgl is a new Xserver on top of OpenGL and compiz the window manager using Xgl enhancements.

This How to will go through the installation process and the way to configure it in Gnome.