How DOES OF Work? (ie multi-OS woes)

[Wolfgang Denk]

David,

in message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990730145315.24021C-100000 at mvista.com> you write:
> 
> I disagree on all counts here.  It really doesn't have anything to do with
> whether yuo're an average user or a developer/power user.  OF is a pain in

IMHO, it does.

> the backside.  Virtually its only advantages are for A. netbooting, B. 
> fanatically eliminating MacOS from your machine, C. running a server or
> other machine that will (almost) exclusively run Linux, or D. using a
> machine that can't run MacOS.  Most of the rest of us won't touch OF with

Aren't these 4 good reasons?

I never use MacOS. Why do I have to keep it running, and  waste  time
booting it just to start what I want to boot from the beginning?

> a ten meter cattle prod.  :-)

This is your $0.02. But YMMV.

Wolfgang Denk

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