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Yesterday, Lars Kellogg-Stedman gleaned this insight: > > I've got a friend asking me to install Linux on his laptop. He > wants it dual > boot, but doesn't like the idea of a bootloader. > > I once new a man who refused to use microwaves because he "didn't like what > they did to the food." To which I replied, "what, cook it?". > > This strikes me as being in the same category. Your friend will lose > *nothing* by using a bootloader. All he's doing he demonstrating an odd > case of technophobia. I more-or-less agree with your assessment, but that doesn't mean one should or shouldn't use a boot loader (or a microwave for that matter)! In the case of the microwave, the difference is taste. Just as a broiled steak tastes different from a fried steak, microwaving a steak imparts a distinct flavor to the meat that I, for one, find utterly repulsive. I would NEVER[1] eat microwaved steak. Otherwise, I quite enjoy a good steak. Other people might actually prefer microwaved steak to grilled (though I would be inclined to think they were bonkers...) 8^) This is essentially the case with a bootloader. It comes down to a matter of preference. You and I like lilo, and others prefer loadlin. That's what Unix, and especially Linux, is all about: choice. [1] I suppose it's possible that someone, somewhere has mastered some technique to cooking steak in a microwave that does not utterly ruin it, so as to fool me into thinking it was not microwaved; however in my experience, even so much as warming a steak in such a device is enough to ruin the flavor, so I have my doubts... -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.txt ------------------------------------------------------ Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek derekm at mediaone.net | derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net ------------------------------------------------------ - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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