[Madlug] What's a smart way to buy a dual boot laptop. Linux+Win

[Rahul Nabar]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Steve Peters <steve.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the work I've been doing, I'm less inclined now to ever dual-boot
> a machine than ever.  Personally, I'd load a free VMWare player on it,
> and install a Linux as a virtual machine (or put the Windows 7 into a
> virtual machine and use Linux as your base operating system).  That
> way you never really have to shut anything down to down.  If you're
> doing web development and need to support IE 6, 7, and 8, it really is
> the easiest way to go.

I had thought so too. I downloaded Suns VirtualBox on my current
laptop running WinXP hoping to do Linux stuff there. But could never
really get it to work correctly.

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Rahul