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copied!<p>You can dual boot, but I would recommend using a Virtual Machine for what you want to do.</p> <p>Look at <a href="http://www.vmware.com/" rel="noreferrer">VMWare</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx" rel="noreferrer">Virtual PC</a>.</p> <p>For more information on Virtual PC: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Virtual_PC" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Virtual_PC</a></p> <p>For more information on VMWare: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation</a></p> <p>You should note that dual booting Windows and Linux can be a little risky and is a bit permanent. Running in a Virtual Machine means that you can run the Linux install in a window and not worry about it affecting your development machine at all. The software will not know the difference, so your testing is not affected.</p> <p>Consider that the Virtual Machine is like a sandbox, where you can try new and different things out, without fear of consequences.</p> <p>Virtual machines do run with a bit of overhead, and therefore you should not expect to be playing games or anything through them. I would say it is very much like logging into a machine through Remote Desktop (good LAN connection) as far as performance goes.</p> <p>EDIT: There is also <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" rel="noreferrer">VirtualBox</a> that you could check out. Thanks for the helpers in my comments for that one.</p>

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