Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft XP’

Windows/Linux Dual Boot Installation Nightmare…and Reprieve

June 24th, 2008

In spite of concerns over Novell’s patent deal with Microsoft, I still wanted to give Novell’s openSUSE Linux a try. I wanted to put Linux on my desktop, as part of my “weaning myself off of Microsoft” plan, and I had this idea that a corporate-backed open source distribution might be “safer” for my system. Boy, was I wrong about that. (more…)