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Just out of curiosity, how many do you have installed on your main PC? And how many do you actually use?
I only have one right now (Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS) but when I get my new rig set up, I'm planning to go install as many distros as I can, and maybe FreeBSD and ReactOS.
And it's possible to share /home partitions, right? But how do I do that?
I currently have:
-Slackware 11 (which I mainly use)
-Suse 10.0 ( an almost 3 year old install, which started running a bit slow, I rarely use it, I plan on formatting it and getting something else on...)
-Windows XP (for Skype and AutoCAD)
-a virtual XP in Virtual Box(trying to get rid of it on my main hard drive, but I can't seem to get the webcam working in the virtual one).
When I manage to make some space on my hard drive, or get a new computer, I plan on installing:
- Slackware
- Gentoo
- something Debian-based. I haven't decided yet.
- FreeBSD
- Solaris
- Numerous others ran in a virtual machine, for testing purposes.
I want Slackware because I like it and I'm used to it, and I want to get to know the others better as well.
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EDIT: Nope, Win 2000 Professional has replaced XP now after the very confused and computer-illiterate individual I have over this week somehow managed to get 3 viruses, 4 trojans and a couple of rootkits on it.
>.< >.< >.< >.< >.< >.< >.< dammit...
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Last edited by StarsAndBars14; 05-13-2007 at 09:53 PM.
Got two on my laptop, Ubuntu and Vista (haven't got the heart to delete it, it's just sitting there and I boot it up once in a while for people who've never used vista or to run windows update).
i run one OS Ubuntu 7.04 with virtual box and vmware installed. and i run my windows xp virtual machine and another CentOS 4.4 installation for software testing. i think visualization is the way to go when it comes to running more than one OS on the same box. just buy you a aditional chip of memory. i don't like multiboot.
3: Suse and Win XP (ouch!) on one laptop. Just installed Debian Etch on the other home laptop (bye bye Slackware...). Actually, I can still boot into Slack, so that makes it 4.
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Depends on what you mean by the phrase 'installed'. Currently I have five Operating Systems installed. Most of the time I only use one, sometimes I have as many as four 'booted and running', virtual workstations sure are nice!!!
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