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Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops
rsmiller510 writes "The EE Times reports this week that Dell has released a hybrid laptop running both Linux and Windows clearly aimed at business travelers. Linux for quick tasks and Windows for more intensive ones, but will such a machine really fly in the business world?"
Hasn't this already been seen, a couple months ago when Dell announced it?
It's not just dual boot, the Linux boot is on a low power ARM CPU, so not only does it boot fast you should get significantly more battery life when running Linux.
It's not dual-booting really, you either run Linux on an ARM, or Windows on a Core2.
Link at end to the original EE article, rather than gushy blog.
Did we not cover this earlier this week?
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3TF41VYEZTQY0QSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=213402554&printable=true&printable=true
The new 17inch Macbook Pro's have an 8gb limit.
Dell XPS line of laptops also have an 8gb limit.
It may take a while for that standard to trickle down to the lower end laptops, but the trend at least has started.
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ntfsfix is the equivalent fsck.ntfs
It comes in the package ntfsprogs.
ntfsfix is the equivalent fsck.ntfs
It comes in the package ntfsprogs.
I appreciate you pointing this out but I looked into it and unfortunately it looks like a partial solution.
From the output of "man ntfsfix":
Regretably, that does not make me feel very confident. Filesystem integrity is one of the few areas where I really must insist on a complete solution. I don't take that position because I want to but because it's dictated by necessity. Preventable data loss or even the possibility of such is simply not acceptable to me.
Just my personal opinion, I don't really consider trying to play catch-up with Microsoft's proprietary standards (or even when the standards are published, their proprietary implementations) to be a sound idea especially when truly open alternatives are readily available. I just feel like you're always going to have problems like this that you can never completely overcome because you're playing someone else's game. Considering the inherent difficulty of this task, the progress that Open Source has made is really quite amazing but I just don't consider this to be anything like an ideal solution.
Microsoft created NTFS, they own it, they can "upgrade" or change it on a whim, and they have no interest in anyone else being able to work with it. That's the nature of the situation and it's beyond our control. Therefore, to me, NTFS compatibility is very much like a dual-boot setup; it is to be avoided unless truly necessary.
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