On June 24, 2004 09:41 am, Robert Ussery wrote:
>Cool... Thanks for the clarification. I'm going off to college at Georgia
>Tech next year, and I've been discussing setting up an inter-dorm-room
> WLAN. Currently, I have a WLAN in my home with 4 computers, but I figure
> the dorm LAN will have a few more... three of mine and at least two or
> three others.
>
>I've been debating an upgrade to XPPro for this reason, as well as the
>reputed security and ease of use benefits for technical stuff. OTOH, I
> may just wipe the drives on all of 'em, and install RedHat :OP.

Linux is growing in popularity, but you'll still run into nonlinux programs
on occasion, so best to learn how to make it a dual boot machine.
Just repartition the drive (add 3 more partitionsat back) and load
home+linux+swap on the back end of the drive.
Do the linux for security, internet, mail, etc, and do the windows for the
nonconnect stuff (such as programs which may not exist yet under linux).

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