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How to install 145 operating systems on one PC
by Brad Linder Sep 13th 2007 at 8:00PM
JustLinux member saikee has posted details of his system that boots 145 operating systems. That includes 3 versions of DOS, 5 versions of Windows, and 137 flavors of Linux. He created 152 partitions on 4 hard drives to get his system up and running. And he probably has the longest GRUB menu you've ever seen. We're guessing the slowest part of the boot process on this system is the amount of time it takes to find the operating system you want to use.
There are obviously very few practical reasons anyone would want to load 145 operating systems onto a PC, but we have to say, we're pretty impressed anyway. It's kind of like climbing Mount Everest because it's there. If you had licenses for 8 MS operating systems, the ability to download as many Linux distributions as you'd like and way too much free time on your hands, wouldn't you do the same thing? No? Oh, well, nevermind then.
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mustra said 9:02PM on 9-13-2007
LMAO !
whats the point ? still very funny though :)
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duke said 8:39AM on 9-14-2007
I bet this guy had 145 imaginary girlfriends too
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artifex said 8:40AM on 9-14-2007
Where's BeOS, DR-DOS, GEOS, Solaris, QNX, etc.?
A bunch of Linux flavors are easy.
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James said 8:40AM on 9-14-2007
8 ms licences, yeah right...
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Ramona loves pictures said 8:41AM on 9-14-2007
I wonder why anyone would need so many systems on one PC, or maybe they are used for net-boots on external terminals.
Anyway it is very strange I think. Even more strange than this dudes of http://gimps.de with those wannabe mutated model pictures.
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tony said 8:47AM on 9-14-2007
@Ramona loves pictures: I wonder why anyone would need so many systems on one PC Beats me
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Tony Cai said 5:26PM on 9-14-2007
wow. nice experiment. most I had was like 3 OS's on a HD.
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dmess0r said 6:12PM on 9-14-2007
Give me a break. 137 flavors of linux? Might as well be one flavor. If he had Solaris x86, BeOS, OpenBSD, Plan9, Darwin x86, and OS/2 Warp all at once with full driver support I might get a little more interested. *yawn* Sounds like a big waste of time in my opinion.
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Shawn Lower said 7:35PM on 9-17-2007
Yeah, no kidding. No OS/2 either, or Xenix? Jesus, it's like that loser that only made it 3/4 of the way up Everest. That's easy. I mean... not that I've ever been there, or... gotten anywhere close, but still. I can type like a maven, so I'm totally gonna mock this newb.
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pamela richardson said 10:37PM on 9-14-2007
Acronis boot manager is another handy tool when it comes to multi booting.
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Teemu said 7:59AM on 9-15-2007
This guy was lazy, so many Linux's there.
Besides BeOS, DR-DOS, GEOS, Solaris, QNX are easy to install as well, so are all of the BSD's, no OS is hard when you put your mind to it. This guy hasn't configured the systems for proper use though, I presume.
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Noway said 7:59AM on 9-15-2007
No BeOS = failure.
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Etienne said 8:01AM on 9-15-2007
Where is MacOSX ? ;-)
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3wbob said 8:02AM on 9-15-2007
One of the reader comments talks about the guys at http://gimps.de DON'T GO THERE! It is infected and will try to install a Trojan horse called C:\U.EXE, even with Firefox. I did and AVG caught it.
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Doppler Duck said 4:28AM on 9-16-2007
Holy crap! The ratio of Linux flavours to the number of PC's used by this person is the same as the ratio of the velocity of the electron in hydrogen's K shell to the speed of light!
Fantastic! Amazing! What an achievement! Wow!
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tom said 11:03AM on 9-15-2007
i now being a geek is more acceptable nowadays, but this is just plain lame. Come on guys..
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Brian Hebbes said 6:12PM on 9-16-2007
Eerily, 145 is precisely the number of marbles you can stuff up an ass's arse before it kicks you.
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vivekkumar_013 said 6:24AM on 9-19-2007
Its cooll...but wats the point havin so many OS???????/anyway welldone...keep goin ...HOHA
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bugmenot said 12:34PM on 9-18-2007
Whining about more missing OSes: AROS, PC-DOS, Contiki, Windows 2.0 and 1.0, LynxOS, Syllable, MenuetOS, Haiku
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Hire a Programmer said 10:37AM on 9-19-2007
OHHHH, very difficult to manage this many OS on same system. i wonder how can processor mange the load, i have seen configuration it is 1 gb ram and amd 64 bit processor. i cant velieve as this is possible.. !!!!!!!
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