From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 26 9:34:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1942D37B400 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from there [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A8AE12130118; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:34:38 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: chip To: Terry Lambert , Anthony Atkielski Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:34:08 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200201260934538.SM01304@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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