switching from windows xp to ubuntu

[Stephane Cyr]

My following comment is not related to GNUCash itself.
Ubuntu and GNUCash are great. Do you know about virtual machines 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine)? If you would like to 
ensure Ubuntu meets all your needs, you could run it as a Virtual 
Machine from within Windows. To do so you could install VirtualBox 
(www.virtualbox.org) on your Windows machine and then create a VM and 
install Ubuntu. This will allow you to run Ubuntu from Windows and 
therefore make it easier to validate Ubuntu since you won't have to 
shutdown Windows to boot Ubuntu everytime you think about something to 
test in Ubuntu.

If you decide to dual boot, Ubuntu will see and will be able to read and 
write to your Windows partition. Windows however won't be able to see 
and read your Ubuntu partition (or file system).



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*From:* Johar Menezes <joharmenezes at gmail.com>
*Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2014 01h18
*To:* refdoc at gmx.net <refdoc at gmx.net>
*Cc:* gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
*Subject:* Re: switching from windows xp to ubuntu

> Thanks for the prompt reply. so as I understand there is no need to import
> any gnucash data if I were to do a dual boot with xp and ubuntu? Can I use
> the same gnucash files on my windows drive in ubuntu?
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:11 AM, refdoc at gmx.net <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> It is the same program, so why fear of dataloss?
>> But you can try out, import the xp data on a ubuntu machine and see for
>> yourself. If you have no second physical machine dual boot until you are
>> happy all works.
>>
>> Sent from my HTC
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Johar Menezes" <joharmenezes at gmail.com>
>> To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: switching from windows xp to ubuntu
>> Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 06:36
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am planning to change my OS from win xp to ubuntu. Will this lead to
>> losing data in gnucash or is it possible to import the gnucash data from xp
>> to ubuntu?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
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