Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:09:53 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <011b01c1a659$fb98a670$0a00000a@atkielski.com> 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> <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com>
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Terry writes: > I don't see any real benefit to the ethnic > cleansing of hard disks, apart from it > permitting you to pretend that coresidence > problems don't exist. The less complexity you have in a configuration, the more stable it will be. I note that getting dual-boot configurations to work seems to require effort far out of proportion to the results obtained. > You mean Windows NT/XP as your server, and > FreeBSD as your... your... uh... your... > reason to buy another machine? I run NT server as my desktop. I chose NT server so that I could work with all the server-side features of NT; I have it configured as a primary domain controller, too (even though it is the only machine in my domain!). However, in my current set-up, the FreeBSD machine actually works as the server; it sits quietly to one side and sends and receives e-mail, and it holds a mirror of my production Web site so that I can test (I did originally install Apache on NT for this purpose, and it works okay, but there are still too many differences between the operating systems to really mirror the production system effectively--the production Web site being on FreeBSD, too). And as I've said, the FreeBSD machine provides DNS for me, in order to improve performance, since my ISP's DNS servers can be real slugs at times. There is much to be said for having two machines. In particular, it lets you do all the things that involve one machine interacting with another, and when you are running a very net-savvy OS like FreeBSD, being able to use all the network stuff is a huge advantage. Also, I'm never obligated to drop what I'm doing to reboot; rebooting a machine to change OS is a clean sweep--you are not just closing one application, you are completely blasting all work in progress and moving to a completely different world. It's like going from the office to home, or vice versa. If all you need is one application, this is a very high price to pay for switching. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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