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LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 10-07-07
Similarly, users can have access to more than one OS. The concept is similar to current dual-boot systems, except that several partitions can run at once. For example, Intel says it's giving its software developers a Linux VM for their programming work, an empty x86 VM to test the compiled code, and a Windows VM to

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 09-05-07
He can't tell me how to do this, though. I told him I was logged in with admin rights already, but he says that's not enough. .... Add one mark for lock-in. After clicking Yes, the disk is finally burned, and yes, it's readable in my Linux machines. After the burning finishes, Vista offers to burn the files to

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 18-06-07
In the end, I've been forced to exchange my new laptop with one running trusty old Windows XP. It's the only time in my life I can remember not having the latest ..... It was offered in | a "dual boot" setup, alongside Windows, so buyers had to choose at | the initial power-up whether to run one or the other.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 14-11-06
So Photoshop kept me from installing Linux on my main workstation. But because of the insecurity of Windows XP it HAD to change. `---- http://mindthegeek.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-im-not-interested-in-vista.html I Figured It Out - I Know What's Missing In Vista! ,----[ Quote ] Then I got the answer: It's us.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 19-06-07
http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=1067 At least Linux is now an option. Yesterday: The XP alternative for Vista PCs ,----[ Quote ] However, demand for XP has remained. In April, Dell brought XP back as an option even on consumer PCs. There is an issue, though, over how long PC makers can keep selling machines

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 28-02-07
I can already envision the angry e-mail. It'll come from the folks who write each month, certain that if they use enough capital letters and exclamation points tool is certainly one of the easiest ways of letting people try Ubuntu without removing Windows or having to partition their hard drive for a dual-boot.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 06-07-07
The 12 year old kid who can't afford a Vista machine, but his dad's hand-me-down Windows 95 machine or Windows 98 machine just doesn't have the glamour. The 15 year old kid who wants to learn more about how a computer works and takes dad's old Windows XP machine and converts it to Linux in Dual-boot mode.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 19-12-06
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty certain that if you want a Linux notebook you can get one already set-up for you, from at least one of the big names. I've got a dual-boot setup on my Compaq notebook, and I've fixed my screen resolution issue so Ubuntu Linux works as well as Vista (except much faster, of course),

comp.protocols.snmp SNMP FAQ Part 2 of 2
Of course, then they can switch to SUSE or Linspire in about 20 minutes, and add crossover and the Windows libraries - and have a fully functional Linux .... Mom got lots of political and economic support. Bill routinely lied to perspective customers. They told IBM they already had an operating system (they did

longest without a reboot
You have installed Vista already. Tutorial Summary: We're going to use the DISKPART on the Vista DVD to shrink the Vista partition on the hard disk and create Two Drives Restoring Vista and dual booting Because you can’t use the Windows XP bootloader to boot Vista, we have to reinstate Vista’s bootloader to the

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 02-07-07
IBM Linux licensing case. The former is clearly directly applicable to FreeBSD. If the header files can be generated by someone who has not been exposed to the .... I went also crazy already when i desided to compare interface params with another server with em NICs. The dfference is that this is has the following

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 29-09-07
For example, I can't run an XP VM on a machine that is only licensed for Windows 98. When I want a "Linux Only" machine, I'll buy a "white box" machine, which doesn't even come with a disk drive. I'll add a hard drive and install Linux, and possibly Xen to run additional Linux VMs. When I want a "dual mode" machine

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 03-07-07
Chances are, it's already made it on a chip on your and my motherboards...but it's there. Soon, if what can happen does happen...we'll all be so very unhappy at being told .... I know because it crashed once, and I got a command prompt. (Plus, the Dish people have Linux programming code posted on their Web site,

AM2 vs. Socket 939
The machine has to dual-boot Windows Vista and Linux. You can choose your own favorite Linux distro. `---- http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2072322,00.asp .... http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3689767453.html Linux on Your Smartphone - Motorola A1200 ,----[ Quote ] If you are already a Linux user,

More linux vs windows crud - was Windows Vista and 16-bit DOS ...
Now you can finally have your computer back. `---- http://cyberpunkcafe.com/news. php?extend.74 Have you try Linux? ,----[ Quote ] Two years later, I got the ...... Your bet - it's almost an exact re-run of the | security issues that affected Windows XP in its earliest days. | | Microsoft wouldn't be using its Vista

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 13-11-06
I can think of at least 3 other browsers that were better than IE, but they never got the same public exposure as Firefox. .... Dell has been widely used in large Linux clusters. Our department buys Dell hardware almost exclusively. All machines are set up as dual-boot with SuSE 9.3 as standard, I suspect.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 14-02-07
Even if they'll add | more features (charts in Google Spreadsheets, pagination in Google | Docs), the products won't try to be an imitation of a desktop Optional Dual-Boot Install with Windows XP. `---- http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lctp60.html They very suddenly retracted this type of offer,

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 24-12-06
xpgenius xpgen...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment I got the Vista, XP, Ubuntu Triple-boot going. I can't wait for the new version Ubuntu Linux 6.10 Edgy Eft (supposed to have all new "edgy" features). There is already a Beta 2 of Edgy Eft available for download.

Strange New Vistas
Another Open Source Film in the Works * Video of PS3 Booting Into Linux, Windows in VM * *BSD Virualisation Grows Up * Vista ForceWare Can Be a Fire Hazard ...... Colinux is a user mode linux, | running as a Windows process. This way you don't need to dual boot | anymore. And while other virtualization techniques

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 28-05-07
You can see that already. Red Hat, which refused to sign any such deal, is flourishing, for example. It's not about code that "just works". ..... My laptop runs XP and has 512 MB, and it's really fast! Vista's minimum is supposed to be 1 GB, but it should still run at least decently at half of that!