I did it to the one dual boot computer I have to see whether I could do it, since in six years of Linuxing, I never dual-booted. It was an old WinXP Pro box with a C:\ and a D:\.

I blew away D:\ and installed Fedora just for fun.

Then I set it to dual boot with Windows, but, on reboot, some weird Acer recovery thingee kept coming up; I couldn't get past that to actually start Windows, so I installed Slackware where C:\ used to be and, in so doing, learned a lot about Grub legacy.

In the process of getting the two distros to work and play well in the same playpen, I have learned to understand the "date" command.

(I do get a kick out watching Fedora's Grub boot to Slackware as the default OS.)

I think we can all agree that its just simply fun and the few of those that have an actual reason for doing this.. its still fun and places you right up there on the "Geek Scale" which is perfectly fine.

Well at the moment I have between 6-10 machines running. I have a asterisk phone running on Centos 5.0.5, one that will be the replacement for it that is running Debian stable. I have my daily machine that is still running Lenny only cause I just haven't gotten round to upgrading it, but to think about it it's really running stable/testing/Sid apps.

I have two laptops, one that is my M$dozer only for just in case and one is a old Compaq that is running squeeze which is my backup machine for the network. The rest are in different projects like one whitebox machine running Debian testing with XFCE to test memory usage.

I have several projects running right now like a audio jukebox which is a headless machine with only mplayer from a command line.

I have another that will set up with multiple burners to burn to all at once.

I just found it easier to test a computer setup with a project to make sure that everything was working on that machine like drivers and so forth. Most of these get past on to clients who have asked for a certain setup and I want to make that everything works.

For project machines, I can get P4 computers for between $50 and $75. Most will go on to someone that is willing to learn Linux instead of paying M$.

I'm just saying................