Fedora core 3 and oralux

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Fri Feb 25 18:29:41 UTC 2005


If you have to ask, you're probably not ready for it.

http://www.vmware.com

Shaun Everiss writes:
> what is vmware.
> Hay if I can say have a system where I can boot to say linux but have dos or windows in the background and keep switching that would bee good.
> Probably I'd have to share linux with dos, but I don't know, it depends on what you tell me about os switching.
> I never thought about this before, and its the ultimate solution if  its free.
> And not too large.
> You have peaked my interest! Please let me know how I can get this os switching set up and how I can make a boot manager accessible.
> This is actily what I want.
> Thanks very much!
> At 04:29 a.m. 26/02/2005, you wrote:
> >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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