I've had my TiBook since March, and in that time, I've never had the slightest urge to dual-boot. OS X is unix enough for me (at times it seems closer to a true Unix than Linux does). There are two primary reasons I keep only one OS on my Mac: - My desire to play with other OSes has mostly been satisfied (I used to keep an "OS of the week" partition on my PC). If there's something else I want to try, I still have my PC. - There are no apps on Linux that I can't replace on OS X. In fact, the only application that I took the time to compile and run under X is GNUcash, just because moving all that account data to something else would be a PITA. Anyway, those are my reasons. If you still want to do a dual-boot, a Mac can handle it pretty well (yay Open Firmware). YMMV. Pacem in terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa Kevin R. Bullock On Sunday, Sep 1, 2002, at 05:21 US/Central, Terry Houle wrote: > I was thinking about getting a Mac running OS X and also putting a > Linux distro on it. The more I think about it wonder if that is the > right thing, or necessary? Since it is running UNIX flavor under the > hood anyway. > Thought and comments??