On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >> It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which >> forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for >> simultaneous access to features (and storage) of both, and generally >> necessitates use of some low-standard transfer storage partition (e.g.: >> vfat). > > My dual-booting, actually tri-booting, with Vista (ugh!), Centos > (brilliant) and Fedora 14 (not keen and a bit seriously buggy) allows me > in Linux to access and change the file space content used by the other > two operating systems. Surely that constitutes simultaneous access to > storage? > If you are tri-booting, how are you accessing the file systems of the other OS's "at the same time"? Don't you have to reboot to change OS's?