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[Todd Wallace]

There's actually another option too.  It's called WUBI.  It basically installs linux in a virtual image file on your existing windows computer.  No partitioning is necessary.  And if you change your mind, you just run the uninstaller in windows and its gone.  You do however, have to reboot to get in to linux.  But at least you can avoid the partitioning that way.

- Todd Wallace

On May 30, 2010, at 9:50 AM, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/30/2010 8:48:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> coconut at pritchard.ca writes:
> 
> 
>> Not meaning to spark a war of OSes here, but you could setup your  system 
> to dual boot Linux and >Windows so that you boot to Windows only when  you 
> want to use the Telescope.
> 
>> I dual boot Mac OS X Snow Leopard and  Windows XP, though I usually just 
> run Windows XP in VMware >Fusion and don't  actually restart out of Mac OS X. 
> I also run several flavours of Linux /  BSD in VMware.
> 
>> Just something to think about with regards to being  'stuck' with 
> something.
> 
>> Regards,
> 
> 
> Well I shy away from partitioning whenever I can.  I would much  rather
> buy another machine for dedicated operation which I could do.
> 
> So I am not really "stuck" with windows but since I am already using  it
> (and I am basically lazy to boot)  I use it.    When I  get the time (my 
> converter
> assembly takes all my time right now) I will probably get a linux only  
> machine
> and take the plunge.   Some of the people I respect the most on  this list 
> use it so it must
> be worth the extra effort of running another machine.
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
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