How many GB is your distro collection?

[Dry Lips]

How many GB of ISO files is your distro collection? I'm sure my collection
is quite modest:

Contents: 74 items, totalling 47.3 GB (and counting... Excluding ISOs on DVDs,
CDs, USB-sticks).

[CharlesA]

Probably around 10GB or so.

BT5, couple Ubuntu ones, a Knoppix one.

[sffvba[e0rt]

I have deleted all the iso's too many times... but I have about 20 or so DVD's and CD's with one or other form of Linux or BSD on it... and that is in about two years...


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[cbowman57]

About 7GB


archlinux-2011.08.19-core-x86_64.iso
archlinux-2011.08.19-netinstall-dual.iso
boot-repair-disk.iso
clonezilla-live-1.2.10-14-amd64.iso
clonezilla-live-1.2.11-18-amd64.iso
debian-testing-amd64-i386-netinst.iso
elementaryos0.1-jupiter-amd64.iso
freezy-11.10-desktop-i386.iso
gnatty-amd64-v3.iso
gNatty Gnome amd64 v3 Live
gNatty Gnome i686 v3.1 Live
gparted-live-0.10.0-3.iso
linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-64bit-rc.iso
mini.iso
pmagic-6.6.iso
precise-remaster.iso
rescatux_0.29
super_grub_disk_hybrid-1.98s1.iso
systemrescuecd-x86-2.3.1.iso

[jjex22]

lol I don't know where to start - I'm a real distro junkie - my ISO's folder is 16 items totalling 34.6GB, and that's since I'm started only keeping 1 version on my drive. On my testing disk, My VHD/VDI partition totals 62GB In Gparted! and this isn't including the two stacks of burned cd's/dvd's -about 10cm high each, Plus you know important cd's for recovery/editing - gparted live/partedmagic/clonezilla etc!

I've been using unix based systems for nearly two years.... and I have a problem!

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I am currently downloading the 8 DVD set for Debian. We will have to wait an see. :)

[ubupirate]

I have no idea.

I have:

Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8 Developer Preview
Ubuntu 10.04.3
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Linux Mint 9, 10, 11, 12 RC
Kubuntu 11.10
Lubuntu 11.10
Xubuntu 11.10


CBA to count it all up. xD

[Dry Lips]

lol I don't know where to start - I'm a real distro junkie - my ISO's folder is 16 items totalling 34.6GB, and that's since I'm started only keeping 1 version on my drive. On my testing disk, My VHD/VDI partition totals 62GB In Gparted! and this isn't including the two stacks of burned cd's/dvd's -about 10cm high each, Plus you know important cd's for recovery/editing - gparted live/partedmagic/clonezilla etc!

I've been using unix based systems for nearly two years.... and I have a problem!

Hah, I knew I wasn't that bad! ;)

[Dry Lips]

I have no idea.

I have:
[...]
Windows 8 Developer Preview
[...]


[Off topic] Would a copy of Win 8 Developer Preview still be functional
when Win 8 officially is launched? [/off topic]

[CharlesA]

[Off topic] Would a copy of Win 8 Developer Preview still be functional
when Win 8 officially is launched? [/off topic]

Depends. They had the Win7 beta active for a couple months after the release of Win7 IIRC.

[Dry Lips]

Depends. They had the Win7 beta active for a couple months after the release of Win7 IIRC.
Ubupirate mentioned in a PM that his license expires in March... But now we're drifting off topic ;)

[ilovelinux33467]

I PXE install whatever distro I use with TFTP and NFS.

On the PXE server the distro storage directory is 38GB. I currently have various versions of Mageia, Fedora, Scientific Linux, CentOS and openSUSE on there.

[dniMretsaM]

Probably around 8 GB.

[SadisticCheeto]

Linux - ~13.7 GB
BSD - ~2.6 GB

I deleted several ISOs a while back that I didn't think I would be interested in again.

[Dry Lips]

Update:
Since yesterday I've downloaded a couple of win 8 preview ISO's
plus Debian Stable... The current stats are: 78 items, totalling 58.1 GB

...I'm not the only one with a problem ;)

[drawkcab]

Collecting is an illness one develops in consumer society. I keep a few image files around of the distros I work with on a regular basis, otherwise I download them as needed and delete ASAP.

[ctrlmd]

1.26G two distro's

[Dry Lips]

Collecting is an illness one develops in consumer society. I keep a few image files around of the distros I work with on a regular basis, otherwise I download them as needed and delete ASAP.

Well, I agree that consumerism is a problem in the western society,
also think distrohopping and use of VirtualBox is quite normal when you're
new to Linux and wish to have a look around.

And besides, downloading ISO's and seeding them afterwards is a great
way of supporting the Linux community ;)

[gagmani]

I have all Linux mint from mint 9(all spins) to 12,all ubuntu from 10.10 to 11.10(all versions),fedora 12 to 16 and many more.I guess it totals to almost 150 GB if I count each spin as different distro

[gagmani]

the reason for such a huge collection is that somehow or someday I will need one distro or other for some purpose and I have only 512kbps(64 kBps I guess).So to download I will have to consume 4 hours internet and electricity.I have all of them burned to dvds.

[F.G.]

so um, it's 52.1 GBs (158 items, oddly, though it includes some zipped images, vm images and tinyos style distros as well as some documentation files), although this isn't really a collection, just what's built up recently. it doesn't include the the burned distros i have on disks (stacked up, i'm sure most of them wont ever be used again) which probably at more than doubles that size.

i hadn't really realized that it had got so bad. time for a cleanout.

[smellyman]

always delete them. Download them when I need one.

[fatbotgw]

My distro folder is currently a little big:

Contents: 297 items, totalling 158.5 GB

I like to keep the older ones in case I get bored and want to mess around with them in a VM.

And yes, I'm a bit of a distro junky...

[ubunterooster]

98GB; unknown number of distros

[wolfen69]

I used to have a HUGE distro collection, and after trying them all, I say use what works for you. That's the same with anything in life.

I've given over 250 copies of Ubuntu(11.10) via Bittorrent, it's just a small way to give back.

I like that most of you people are nice, it seems we disagree, and we have to get over it. It's nothing personal.

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Well, I've finally been getting back into Linux. I was on a PC for over a year with a crappy video card that didn't lend itself nicely to Linux. So, having ditched the PC in favor of a 27" iMac, I'm back testing different Linux distros through Parallels Desktop 7.

After the holidays, I'll have a decent laptop to properly install a couple (or few) distros. I haven't even looked into dual-booting on the iMac yet.

In any event, at about 15 gigs, here's what I have in my distros folder:


openSUSE-12.1-DVD-x86_64.iso
linuxmint-DebianEdition-201109-gnome-dvd-64bit.iso
antiX-M8.5-686.iso
openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-i686.iso
SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.5.03-rel1_32.iso
ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
ubuntu-11.10-dvd-amd64.iso
lubuntu-10.10.iso
Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso

[asifnaz]

I have no idea.

I have:

Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

Pardon me are those Pirated..?