Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:34:08 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <200201260934538.SM01304@there> In-Reply-To: <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com> References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com>
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On Saturday 26 January 2002 01:03 am, Terry Lambert banged out on the key= s: > Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > Dual-boot configurations are really not necessary today. Even the > > cheapest second-hand PC will run FreeBSD quite nicely, so there isn't= any > > reason not to run it on a separate, dedicated machine. If you need b= oth > > Windows and FreeBSD, just use one machine for each. > > Works great in a one room apartment. Also works great if you > aren't a geek, and only want to own one computer, or are a > student, who has to have a Windows machine for classwork, but > would like to have a UNIX to work/learn on, too. There is another possibility not yet mentioned - vmware. I have set up=20 systems at work that run (spec'd by the developers) redhat linux and vmwa= re=20 with win2000 in the vm. My experience was that this works real well. Both= =20 OS's have full network access to each other and the 'outside' world. This= =20 also saves the extra work of setting up a dual-boot system. Granted,=20 sometimes setting up vmware can be just as much work. Soon as I get a lar= ger=20 hard drive I'm going to do that on my workstation, FBSD with W2K in the v= m. --=20 Chip <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patc= h to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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