My daughter reads here, and just called in ...
... and wondered if I should have shot her when she was 12, after I discovered she was dual booting Slackware and BSD.
She had four partitions on a huge 800 meg IDE drive: BSD, Slack, swap and her personal directories. She was afraid I'd get mad at her for blowing away Windows to make room for a persistent partition for personal stuff ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
