Re: Linux

[Emery Snyder emery.snyder@xxxxxxxx]

The difference is:

with LILO or GRUB, you choose one OS to boot into. Once you're in the
OS, you're in the OS.

With Virtual PC etc., you run (for example) a Windows session with
some non-Mac app like MS ProjectManager *within* your Mac session. You
can move back and forth between.


On 12.2.2003, Wendell Cochran wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:57:28 -0500
> From: Norman Bauman 

>> As I said before, my current thinking about Linux is that I could use
>> something like Connectix, which allows you to run different OSs
>> simultaneously on the same machine. Then I could add new operating systems,
>> and keep using my legacy systems until I phase them out.


> Millions of Linux users run multiple OSes on one machine without
> paying for anything like Connectix.

> Most use LILO, though GRUB will soon displace it. Other bootloaders
> do exist, but all together they can't add up to 1%.

> Both are free, as in beer & also speech.

> Wendell Cochran
> West Seattle

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