Fedora core 3 and oralux

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Fri Feb 25 15:29:43 UTC 2005


I agree with the advice to put Linux on its own machine, but not for any
difficulty with configuring dual boot systems. Actually, it's not that
hard to put a reasonably accesible dual boot system together.

The problem arises from the fact that you can't be in both environments
at the same time (without something like vmware, but let's not go
there). On a dual boot environment, you choose which OS to boot, and the
other remains unavailable to you unless you reboot.

As a result, you learn less, because you can not readily turn from one
OS to the other for a simple (or more complex) task. Rather, you have to
close out whatever you have open, taking care to save open files,
shutdown, wait for the new system to boot, then open another
application, etc., etc., etc.

Now, who will do such a thing just to check out some new trick you've
just heard about for the grep command? Or to test a suggested
configuration setting for mutt or lynx? Or to learn something cool with
sed or awk?

No, you won't reboot for such things. You'll wait until you have nothing
better to do--and that day rarely comes.




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