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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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