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Dual Booting Windows-Linux: The Dell Option

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MH
Matt Hartley
Aug 13, 2007

“Generally when a company is considering an upgrade to new
workstations or notebook computers, they will elect to use
Microsoft Windows. Not out of love for the operating system, rather
out of understanding for the importance of familiarity and
compatibility with the existing office ecosystem. Sounds like a
good approach, until the ecosystem breaks down with a security
breach targeting the OS used almost exclusively by the business in
question.

“I believe the logical option that is missed these days is a
second OS option, a tool that enables your IT staff to navigate the
minefield that a security breach may have caused. That tool? The
common Linux distribution…”

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Matt Hartley

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