The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook

Summary

When you work in a cross-platform environment, the availability of common tools across OSs can be extremely useful. If you use a cross-platform office suite for doing your work, you can do that work in any OS supported by that suite, which can free you up to more easily move from one OS to another or to boot whichever OS is most appropriate for tasks other than working with the office suite. The ability to read or create PDF files in any OS can also be a great boon, particularly with more and more documentation becoming available in PDF format. Finally, Internet applications shared across OSs can enable you to access the Internet equally well in any OS. With careful placement of configuration files, you can even share your local email ...