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Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist?

From notbob <notbob@nothome.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist?
Date 2013-06-23 21:35 +0000
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On 2013-06-23, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> I may be able to justify buying a new Dell i7 desktop box by claiming
>> I need (and will actually use) Windows/Office for office
>> administrative (not network) purposes.

C'mon Aragorn.  Read the above.

> Mind you that if you buy a brand new computer, it'll probably have 
> Windows 8 on it, not Windows 7.

Dell still delivers W7 machines,
>
> That said, LILO and GRUB1 can both boot more than one operating system, 
> albeit that GRUB is more flexible in that regard than LILO.  But for 
> dual-booting between GNU/Linux and Windows, LILO will work.

That would be nice.  I've never used grub.

> If it's a new machine and it has 4 GiB or more RAM, then you definitely 
> want to go for a 64-bit version of your distribution - Slackware, I 
> presume. ;-)

Is there any doubt!?  The M$ stuff is cuz I need to suddenly interact
with lotta mainstream financial institutions on behalf of my
Alzheimer's mother.  Jes easier and justifies upgrading to TCB on
her behalf.  

nb

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Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-23 18:40 +0000
  Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-06-23 15:10 -0400
  Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-06-23 21:11 +0200
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-23 21:35 +0000
      Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-06-24 07:36 +0200
        Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-24 13:47 +0000
          Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-06-24 21:13 +0000
            Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-25 11:39 +0000
              Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.home.org> - 2013-06-27 20:39 -0700
        Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-06-24 12:41 -0400
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2013-06-24 08:56 -0800
      Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-06-24 18:11 +0200
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Soupe du Jour <soupedujour2000@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 12:41 +0000
  Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? David Hough <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2013-06-23 20:18 +0100
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2013-06-23 22:04 +0200
      Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-23 22:15 +0100
  Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-06-23 21:23 +0100
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2013-06-23 22:26 +0100
      Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-06-24 00:00 +0100
      Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-06-25 21:02 +0100
        Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> - 2013-06-27 11:05 -0400
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2013-06-23 16:49 -0500
  Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2013-06-24 17:16 +0200
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-06-24 12:29 -0400
  Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-07-19 21:56 +0000
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-07-19 17:07 -0500
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-07-19 22:13 +0000
      Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-07-19 22:47 +0000
        Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-07-20 00:08 +0000
          Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-07-20 12:35 +0000
    Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-20 08:16 +0100
      Re: Can Windows and Linux still coexist? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-07-20 12:40 +0000

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