Hi Folks,
I have to agree with Eric, muli-booting is very important.
We are developing some things on linux and depending what the developers are
working on, they will either boot windows or linux. Some staff are even
full-time linux users. Personally, I dual boot a laptop to either win98 or
mandrake 8. So in my humble opinion, this will be very important for new
sysadmins in the near future.
On a side note, as I haven't really had time to follow the thread so far, how
much importance is placed on setup/config of laptops? I've had mixed results
getting new laptops to work with linux. It can be a blessing sometimes having
some things as a PC card device, but thankfully support from vendors is
getting better.
Just my $0.02..
Tom
> I believe multibooting is very prevalent, particularly for:-
>
> 1. new users with access to a single computer who wish to try out Linux.
>
> 2. experienced users with laptop machines.
>
> 3. sysadmins comparing driver performance
>
> Sysadmins need to be able to support all three of the above users.
> At least lilo concepts should be examinable.
>
> eric
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>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
> > Les Bell wrote:
> > > "David D . W . Downey" wrote:
> > >
> > > Yup, I can see lots of worms crawling out of this particular can.
> > >
> > > Personally, my view is that corporate use of Linux on the desktop is
> > > still mostly a matter of personal preference. I don't see many
> > > corporations rolling out Linux desktops, and fewer still requiring
> > > helpdesk support for Linux desktops. The vast majority of admins,
> > > therefore, are managing servers, and that's where LPI's efforts should
> > > be focused, with low priority placed on multi-boot systems.
> >
> > I would agree with this view. Multi-boot, while interesting, has too
> > many variants associated with it.
> >
> > Even when people use Linux on the desktop, they are, in my view, largely
> > going to use one OS on the machine, and, except for the dedicated, will
> > not use two operating systems.
> >
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