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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:34:31 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why dual boot?
Message-ID:  <20020126003431.A77505@HAL9000.wox.org>
In-Reply-To: <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:47:55AM %2B0100
References:  <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> <3C51CD33.4E69B204@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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Thus spake Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>:
> 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 both Windows and
> FreeBSD, just use one machine for each.

For the server market, that makes sense.  For the desktop market, it's
a different story.  I need Windows about every other week, and
occasionally more.  That hardly justifies the purchase of a box that
can run Photoshop, or switching FreeBSD to a box that's half as fast.
Besides, if you have to buy hundreds of dollars of hardware to run
FreeBSD, then it's hardly free.

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