<shrug> I'm lazy I'd rather use a VM, then reformat and reimage a drive everytime I wanted to switch operating systems
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > For all intents and purposes for what he is saying to use if for, there is > no difference. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stewart [mailto:webmas...@sstwebworks.com] > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:35 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: transitioning to linux for development > > > Ghost reimages the machine, and requires wiping the machine's drive > and starting over. > VMs are virtual machines, and you can run multiple VM's at the same > time, provided that you have the harware resources, and no drive > wipes. > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> You can do the same thing with something like Norton Ghost... >> >> Eric >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:06 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: transitioning to linux for development >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Matthew P. Smith <m...@smithwebdesign.net> >> wrote: >>> So I've pretty much had it with windows. I was all excited with 7, and > it >>> worked great for a couple of months, but now my systems has slowed way >> down >>> and I can't figure out what is going on. At this point it looks like I >> will >>> have to reinstall, and frankly, I don't really have the time for it. >> >> Welcome to the club. I feel a little dirty saying this (since Apple >> gave Adobe a Steaming Hot Carl a couple of weeks ago) but Apple just >> updated it's MacBook Pro product line and I received mine Wednesday. >> Oh, I will still run Windows, but only in a tidy little VM on my MBP. >> >> Which brings me to my next topic - you may look into running VMs of >> Linux / Windows / whatever rather than installing as a dual boot. >> With a VM you can save the VM image and restore it later if you'd >> like, which is a huge shortcut over reinstalling everything from >> scratch each time you feel like Windows is being Windows. >> >> -Cameron >> >> . >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316569 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
