Yes, macs can be installed dual boot.  The default OSX install does
not set a root password and any administrative accounts can use sudo. 
Root does exist, but it is locked by default.

-- Matt Eastman

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:17:03 -0600, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you dual boot macs?
> 
> One big difference between OSX and free software is that a friend of mine
> installed OSX without knowing his root password.  I don't know much more than
> that, but it seemed significant.
> 
> On Friday 21 January 2005 11:57 am, Jeffrey Lee wrote:
> > I see people that take os x off of their macs and put gentoo or some
> > other version of linux and i cant understand why. I guess there are
> > benefits?
> 
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