Most OSes you've ever had on one computer

[Dustin2128]

Just curious as to what other people's limits are. For me it was a quad boot on my original linux machine: ubuntu hardy, PC-BSD (later wiped and swapped it to back track), fedora and slackware. The main thing I did for maximum storage efficiency was install each OS on its own minimal space partition, usually around 5-10GB, and use the rest of the drives, about 160GB, as a home folder for all OSes. Minus BSD, which I gave a separate 40 gb partition before I swapped to back track.

[Spice Weasel]

Currently 5, most I've had is about 11.

BETA testing is fun. None of my current OSes are tests though.

[Naiki Muliaina]

Current PC - 6 drives - 8 partitions total with Linux installed, 7 different flavours.

1 TB Ubuntu 10.04
1 TB Ubuntu 10.04

360 gig 100 Fedora 14, 100 OpenSuse, 100 Mandriva rest is swap and fluff

120 gig Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha

80 gig OzOS 8.04 version
80 gig MoonOS

[Dustin2128]

I'm getting a new desktop soon, I'm considering just installing distro after distro after distro to see how many I can practically have on the old one.

[NMFTM]

Ordered from most to least used:

Accessible from the bootloader:
- Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit) - all tasks except most gaming
- Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) - play games that are a hassle to use in Wine and at LAN parties
- Windows XP SP3 (32 bit) - play games that won't run in 7

Accessible from virtual machines:
- Windows Server 2008 (32 bit) - school work
- Windows 7 Professional (32 bit) - school work
- Fedora 13 (32 bit) - school work
- Windows XP SP3 (32 bit) - school work, but rarely used anymore

[Cam!]

Last summer, I was running Windows 7, Windows 95 (Don't ask, LOL), Ubuntu 9.04, an alpha of Ubuntu 9.10, and Mac OS X Leopard.

[Spice Weasel]

Last summer, I was running Windows 7, Windows 95 (Don't ask, LOL), Ubuntu 9.04, an alpha of Ubuntu 9.10, and Mac OS X Leopard.

95 was pretty good. It included all the stuff you need to access the internet, but ran DOS games natively. Which is awesome for people like me. :P

[M93]

i currently have ubuntu 10.04, openSUSE, win7, winXP
i thought about giving ubuntu 10.10 alpha a try so i might give up win7 for it...but i chose 4 caz thats wut i have right now :D

[LinuxFox]

I'll only stick with two, Ubuntu and Windows. To be honest, I've only used Wubi to install Ubuntu. I'm sticking with it on my Laptop (it has an odd setup on Windows). If I ever get my desktop PC fixed, I'll probably do a regular install.

Ubuntu is used for most things and Internet surfing, I use Windows for my iPod, some games, and video watching.

Edit: would using a Live CD count? I've used a few Live CD based distros along with Windows and Ubuntu.

[KingYaba]

Do we include virtual machines? If so I have about a dozen. But I dual boot Ubuntu+Win7.

[andymorton]

The most I've had is 3 (Windows Vista, Ubuntu 9.04, Kubuntu 9.04)
I've got 2 at the moment (Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3)
Once Maverick is released in October, I'll just have that.

andy:)

[Dustin2128]

Personally I'm only intending to count those installed on your actual, physical computer. Post list of active VMs here though if you like.

[wojox]

Quad

Ubuntu 10.04 Gnome

Debian Lenny Gnome

Fedora 12 Gnome

OpenSUSE 11.2 Kde

[desnaike]

Quad split between two hdd 80 gigs each. on P4 1.7ghz 1 gig ram

Ubuntu 8.04
Opensuse 11
Mandriva 2009.1
Mepis 7

[lee shore]

4

Dual booting OS X and Windows7

Whilst running Ubuntu and XP in Virtualbox.

[Rahbee Kannuhn]

Most I've ever run at once is 3. I've had a dozen on a hard drive at a time though.

[Legendary_Bibo]

I used to dual boot with Vista, but wiped it with 10.04.

To be honest I practically had an aneurysm every time I saw the grub menu :D

On virtualbox I have XP installed, and I'm attempting to get Mac OS X to work on it. (My friend had an extra Mac disc when he bought a four pack so he gave it to me. I can get it to a grey screen with the Apple logo, and loading arrows, but it always hangs).

[dragos240]

4

FreeBSD
Ubuntu
Debian
Gentoo

My current setup:

Arch

A defunct debian sid

Don't think I'm here to stay

[RainPhantom]

4 usually, Mandriva, Fedora, Ubuntu, Sabayon at the moment. I noticed this post the other day. Look at #49, grub2 makes it easy to multi-boot.


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1548416&page=5

[Dustin2128]

4

FreeBSD
Ubuntu
Debian
Gentoo

My current setup:

Arch

A defunct debian sid

Don't think I'm here to stay
why not just wipe sid if its leeching your disk space?

If anyone's interested, my laptop (main computer until I can get a new graphics card) has a slack/ubuntu dual boot.

LB, maybe a custom LILO is what you want, like slackware has by default:
http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/slackware122-7.png

[Legendary_Bibo]

why not just wipe sid if its leeching your disk space?

If anyone's interested, my laptop (main computer until I can get a new graphics card) has a slack/ubuntu dual boot.

LB, maybe a custom LILO is what you want, like slackware has by default:
http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/slackware122-7.png

If it plays nice with Ubuntu 10.04 and is easier to customize its appearance then I'm all for it when I get back into distro hopping again.

[handy]

My No.2. box has drive drawers (it is also the one I used to use to distro hop) so I just stick one system to one drive; slipping a new drive into the machine when I want to boot or install another system.

My No.1. box has both OS X, & Arch on it. All I've done to the iMac was pull out its 320GB HDD & replace it with a 1.5TB drive as I needed the space. This machine will never be used as a tri or more boot system.

[Khakilang]

I single boot on my main computer but with Window XP on virtual box since I don't use Window that much. I got another 80GB hard disk which occasionally I dual boot with Window 7 and other Distro like Fedora or OpenSuse just for testing purpose.

[smellyman]

laptop currently with

Sidux
Arch
Mint LXDE
Macpup
Qurky
Lucid Puppy

It has had pretty much every distro at one time.....

[aschwerin.moses]

At one point of time i had

- Ubuntu
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista/Snow Leopard
- Windows 7
- Leopard

[Tracy177]

how do you do that people ? 6 OSes on single machine ? GOD

i always had one and it was windows first 95 than 2000 etc today i have two Oses on my hdd win7 and ubuntu 10.04

[Naiki Muliaina]

For me I have a lot of hard drives. Semi quoting my own post.

1 TB
1 TB
360 gig (3 partitions on)
120 gig
80 gig
80 gig

[Oppermongo]

Guess the best I did was dualbooting ubuntu and windows vista, and then installing xp in a virtual machine while in ubuntu and installing portable ubuntu in windows vista o.O
currently running a windows 7 laptop dualbooted in ubuntu and a macbook dualbooted with windows 7 and planning on trying several distro's on my old desktop :D

[slakkie]

Win98, Win NT4, Win2k

Now running Debian testing/Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop.

[WRDN]

Quad booting Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 12, Windows 7 Pro and Windows Vista Business edition on my main machine.
Dual booting Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and XP on my server.

[samalex]

My system only boots into Ubuntu 10.04, but if you count virtually I have the following OS'es setup:
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows XP Pro
- MS-DOS 6.22 (just for fun)
- Linux From Scratch (still going through it)
- Haiku

Sam

[Bapun007]

Only windows xp and ubuntu 10.04 dualbooting .