Yeah that's totaly doable-He/she will need to get his/her hands dirty with a linux bootloader(usualy GRUB). I thought visual studio spoke C-but if for what ever reason he/she'd rather do development on linux: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot I know that other distros support it. I've only done it a few times with partition magic and what not forunatly it's a little easier to do now. I think ubuntu has some way to run ontop of windows-haven't tride that yet. Just make sure the system can actualy run a distro of linux first! quite a few offer a live CD/DVD mode to see what (if anything) might be a problem interms of compatability. otherwise he/she should have fun with linux.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a friend who has an AMD processor based Windows system (Windows 7 > IIRC). > > He wishes to convert it to a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, with two > bootable partitions, one for each OS. > > Many years ago I did this sort of thing, but a lot has changed. > > Do any of us have experience with this? A good pointer/site on how to do > this? > > He does seem to be confused a bit about all the possibilities: > - Virtual Box > - Cygwin > - Dual boot (with both partitions being bootable) > - Which distro to use (He mainly wants to do development w/ C/C++ within the > mathematics world) > > I was surprised that he thought it necessary to use linux .. I presumed he > could do everything he wanted to do in Windows itself but apparently > compilers were not there and that sort of thing. I do know on the mac you > can install a "developer's sdk" for free (have to register) and presumed > that was also possible with Windows. > > Any pointers much appreciated! And alternatives too. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
