Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:52:28 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <20020125234453.R32624-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, 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 both Windows and > FreeBSD, just use one machine for each. this is not always very convienent. i have ONE dual booting machine, my laptop. this also happens to be one of two machines that runs win2k. > Additionally, no production system can be a dual-boot system, since > production systems by nature are up 24 hours a day. i don't think anyone has disputed this. production systems are, by nature, single OS/single purpose machines (that's my own choice, and my own philosphy.. it makes locking a machine down easier..). > I've never run multiple-boot configurations on any machine. Nowadays there > is no significant cost advantage, and it's a real pain to stop the system > and reboot each time you want to use one system or the other, and getting > both systems configured to boot on a single hardware configuration can be > problematic. Additionally, I prefer that the FreeBSD machine be _pure_ > FreeBSD, and that the Windows machine be _pure_ Windows. Finally, when you > have two machines running simultaneously, you can use both operating systems > as intended: Windows for the desktop, and FreeBSD as your server. My > FreeBSD system handles e-mail, prototyping of my Web site, DNS, and so on, > for example. so.. what about a dual booting laptop? -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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