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Dual Boot/VM Support Option

Operating Systems, Operating Systems - Multiboot submitted by nobbewan 07/30/07

Offer Dual Boot as an option with GRUB. GRUB is getting a facelift via GSoC, and this would be nice to fight off boot camp for mac. Additionally you could offer VM support out of the box, maybe something like a VM of Vista/XP to run in (K)ubuntu or vice versa. This could be done through VM Player or one of the new VM options that were just introduced into the Linux Kernel.

Dell supporting linux is going to change a lot of things, and this is going to be very apparent for web developers soon with Safari just released on Windows and Webkit possibly making it into KDE 4.1. It will be essential that everyone can develop easily for these new possibilities. Comment »