As expected, OS X El Capitan has been released and can be downloaded right now from the Mac App Store. Here’s how to perform a clean install of OS X El Capitan. While OS X El Capitan keeps the same ...

OS X Yosemite is officially out and ready for the public. It’s the latest OS X version from Apple and it comes with a heap of new features, including an all new look and Handoff (which lets you go ...

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.

(Note: This guide is adapted from one I found buried in Google's cache, so I thought Ars might appreciate a more accessible, updated version.)<br><br><b>Introduction</b><br><br>We all know that OS X ...

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 ...

Corrupt and new disks might not have a working Recovery partition, but there are still ways to access one and reinstall OS X, if needed. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Apple's OS X Server has the capability of turning your Mac Mini computer into a server powerful enough to run your business network. It is available at a fraction of the cost of comparable server ...

Google’s Chrome OS is here to stay. In fact, Chromebooks have been dominating the education segment in the US, to the point that it accounts for 51% of its market share. And now, to capitalize on the ...

This first article of a three-part series on Photon OS steps you through how to install and use the lightweight Linux distribution as a base OS for your Linux project. Photon OS, a lightweight Linux ...

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, ...