advantages of partitioning hardisk and installing two different type of OS for example windows & linux OS
2006-07-29 15:17:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
there are no advantages unless you prefer linux?
2006-07-29 15:20:50 · answer #1 · answered by VzjrZ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linux needs 2 partitions, so make it 3!
2006-07-29 15:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Run 118,000 FREE games, programs, apps... on Linux!
2. Run your system at 8 times faster than Microsoft did!
3. NO crashes or burns!
4. Choices abound in Browsers, office suites, games, programs.
5. NO MICROSOFT VIRUS DEFINITIONS can work!
6. 110,000 MORE reasons, with no way to list them here!
7. Because all my kids run Linux, starting at age 4(girls!) or age
5(boys...)l And, you are more mature than they, and you need
an explanation?
8. Because 1 billion Chinese, and 1.5 Billion other Asians and Indians, and Thais, and Russians, ahd Europeans, can't all be wrong!
Microsoft has tons of money, and a 'business model' that is mostly a house of cards, built upon media hype, that is only still tottering in the USA! It is offering you word processing, video media, music media, internet. Horse puckey! None really work intuitively! And, they all invoke DRM, restrict YOUR RIGHTS to FAIR USE under the laws! Microsoft's probation for FELONY Theft (2 counts, of the 8) was revoked in March, and extended for two (2) more years! The EU has imposed fines, and is fed-up with the extended 'promises' from the great Felon, judged 'guilty' in 2002!
Microsoft has 150,000 virus definitions, none of which work in Unix, nor, in the clones of Unix: POSIX systems, a dozen BSDs, plus 500 GNU/Linux distros.
When someone actually invents a virus that can successfully attack Macs/BSDs, and Linux machines, etc. they would get such notoriety, that they would become millionaires overnight! But, they can't, because of the way that the POSIX/Unix/Linux systems are built, with secure programming code.
AND IF YOU HEAR THE FALSE ARGUMENT "Microsoft has the bigger share of market, so are the target", you can counter that this is a false statement, because over 78% of the WORLD WIDE Internet is served on GNU/Linux, and BSD! But, all the internet virus definitions attack Microsoft computers, servers, and YOUR home Microsoft systems!
IN FACT, Microsoft.com and hotmail.com EACH run on 15,000 Linux Servers!!! Google.com runs on 100,000 Linux clustered servers.
Yahoo.com runs on FreeBSD. 499 of the largest, fastest, 500 computers in the world, are Linux Clusters. NONE are Microsoft!
Also, all of the Unix and clones are multi processor, multi user, multi-processing in real time (con-current processing), and have been 64-bit since 1993, offering 118,000 programs, games, applications for FREE download!
There are 110,000 reasons to run Linux or BSD OSes. There are NO reasons to embrace the Microsoft virus magnet! ALL hollywood movies since "Titanic - 1997" were rendered or animated, in GNU/Linux clusters.
The Fortune 1,000 corporations run Linux. That includes the NYSE, Wall Street, their banks, Boeing, and, Burger King. 165 world governments run GNU/Linux. Every launch of a Shuttle is done entirely on Linux, as is every MARS ROVER mission, and all Space Probes, and satellites.
Microsoft hopes to someday offer some applications and a real OS that are all multi- etc. on 32 or 64 bit, but, Bill's last act before his retirement was to FIRE teh ENTIRE Vista team, up to and including the VP!!!
Please, if you are going to multi-boot, before you partition the drive, de-frag your Microsoft system!
2nd step... go download the free distro, http://pclinuxos.com and burn the image to CD. RUN it, as a LiveCDrom.
Only after you are comfortable with it, should you hit the 'Install' icon!
There are forums on the webpage, and yes, over 5,000 games, programs, applications! Yes, all the IMs work!
2006-07-29 16:23:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Compatibility
2006-07-29 15:37:07 · answer #4 · answered by negusma2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋