In a message dated 2009.04.11 20:26 -0500, James Knott wrote:
If you have sufficient disk space, you can have both Linux & Windows on the same computer. That way, you only have to boot Windows to use those apps that won't run on Linux. Incidentally, many Windows apps can run on Linux, by using a utility called "wine" or Crossover Office, which is a commercial implementation of wine. One thing I do, is create a FAT32 partition, which I move my "My Documents" folder to. This partition can be written to by both Linux & Windows, so you can share files between the two operating system.
Or you can run Ext2IFS on the Windows side, which installs the Ext2 FS driver in the Windows OS, allowing Windows access to the common /home partition (and any other Ext2/3 partition). It runs at full speed and is totally transparent, allowing Windows to run as needed while still having the superior file system - and it makes it easy to drop Windows when you no longer need it.
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