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>On Behalf Of Jose Da Silva


>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).


Yep... I'm actually running dual boot WinXP and KRUD (Redhat Distro) Linux
on my laptop. I wuz more or less kidding, but it sure would be nice to have
a completely open-source computer setup. Probably won't happen anytime soon,
but it would still be fun.

Anyhow, TTYL


- Robert

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