Windows and Ubuntu on same system- Ubuntu runs GnuCash?

[Owain Sutton]

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 12:39 -0500, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:11:19PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> > 2009/11/20 BPG <bigskypa at gmail.com>:
> > > Ah, that's good.
> > >
> > > I'm downloading Ubuntu even as I type.
> > >
> > > Man, I hope it doesn't destroy my computer.
> > 
> > There is always some risk doing this sort of thing.  Make sure you
> > backup all important data and docs before starting.  Make sure that
> > you can read your backup and all the important stuff is really there.
> > Of course a disk can crash at any time so hopefully you have good
> > backups anyway.
> 
> Yes.  Always have backups, preferably in a place where a crashing or 
> misbehaving software can't get to it, like inside a ziploc bag in the 
> back of your sock drawer.

For important files, even that isn't really good enough - a copy in a
different building entirely is the only way of protecting against
worst-case scenarios, i.e. the place burning to the ground!