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Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
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| I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. I
| decided this morning at about 4AM to rebuild the system as a dual boot with
| Ubuntu 9.04 on the second partition. The goal is to minimize my "Windows
| dependency" status as much as possible. Another goal was to come up with
| functional partitions that could be imaged and cloned. I couldn't sleep anyway.
|
| [...]
|
| So for the price of:
| 1 hour and 27 minutes more of my time installing Windows XP Pro versus Ubuntu;
| 20GB of hard drive space used by Windows XP Pro versus 8GB of hard drive space
| in Ubuntu;
| no differences in functionality;
| potentially becoming XP-ground-zero for every malware-writing jackass in the
| world;
| I get the âequivalentâ in Windows XP Pro?
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013752o-2000440676b,00.htm
Recent:
[GNU/Linux Beats Windows 7 and Windows XP by a Huge Margin]
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| Abundant performance delivered by today's quad-core processors has shifted
| the performance bottleneck from the CPU and memory to the disk I/O subsystem
| in most of day-to-day usage scenarios. In order to optimize system's
| responsiveness, performance-hungry computer enthusiasts carefully selecting
| top-notch, 10K RPM mechanical drives and stunningly fast SSD disks. But, what
| about the operating system â which one of modern operating systems is capable
| of utilizing fast hard drives and multi-core CPUs most effectively?
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http://www.flexense.com/resources/file_systems_performance_comparison.html
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