Nick,
I'm an assistant network administrator where i work. can you imagine
having to support even a modest network of 40 users with 40 workstations
that all dual boot from windows 9x to Linux Mandrake? given that most
corporate users have only enough working knowledge of their workstations
to navigate their menus and get their work done. Now, throw into that mix
a second OS that requires a little more thought at times to operate in and
is somewhat less forgiving of some of he insane things that are done to
that workstation on a daily basis, and you have a network admins nightmare
from hell.
there are at least 3 users that i can think of off the top of my head
where i work that STILL have a difficult time understanding the simplest
concepts such SAVE often and NEVER edit an email attachment, i.e. a word
document until first you've saved it to your hard disk. please don't
misunderstand me when i say this, but these are very bright,
high-functioning people that are extremely good at what they do but are
very computer stupid. Now, give them a dual boot machine and watch that
stupidity multiply exponentially. I think you get the picture.
In the corporate world there are precious few of us that "dual boot" and
most, if not all of us are developers of one sort or another. Or, at the
very least are engaged in some sort of Geek-type activity that allows us
the luxury of using more then one OS.
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Nick Thompson wrote:
>How so? My laptop dual boots between Win98 and LM8.1. It has the same
>hostname in each boot and uses DHCP to get its networking details in
>both cases. If I hadn't told our IT department, I'm not sure they'd have
>even realised I'd done it.
>
>Nick.
>
>Mark Weaver wrote:
>
>>>The reason that companies don't install dual-boot Windows/SomeOtherOS is
>>>because Microsoft have hidden license agreements that preclude such things.
>>>
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>>not to mention the fact that that situation would be a network admins nightmare from
>hell!
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