Giving up Windows?

[Michael L Torrie]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 19:56, William Herold wrote:
> I'm an old Microsoft developer (yes, I even worked for Bill many years
> back) but I'm considering ditching my Windows laptop for a PowerBook
> with a dual boot OSX / Linux configuration. I'm a bit nervous - has
> anyone else on this list made that switch? Is there anything you miss?
> My work machine will still be a Windows box & I'd like to be able to
> take some work home. Does anyone here use Virtual PC in addition to
> Yellow Dog? The idea of three OS's on one box makes my head spin...

I think you'll have few problems.  Go for it.  The Powerbook is a suite
machine.  

If you're buying a 12" PB, just stick with OS X.  Linux, although it
runs fine, won't support sleep, suspend, or power management on the 12"
yet (nVIDIA problems) so it's not worth dealing with at all yet.  

Something you could consider is running linux within VirtualPC (and
windows too).  That way you could have all 3 OS's running at the same
time!

With the Fink packages installed on OS X, I find the unix environment is
close enough to Linux to be comfortable and usable.  I regularly run the
Gnome X11 desktop on OS X.

Micheal

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Michael L Torrie <torriem@chem.byu.edu>