Sure, the name makes you sound like you have some kind of horrible ocular infection, but vee-Dee Eyes has a massive collection of prefab Linux distros ready for you to run in VirtualBox.

VMware has been ruling the virtual machine game for quite a while, but Sun has made great strides with Virtual Box of late. Performance is very good (there's really no appreciable lag, even on our virtualized Windows Vista install), and it is free, after all.

You could also download five or six Linux iso images and install them yourself, but that requires a lot of additional time and effort. Since we're all about slack efficiency here, we figure why not take advantage of the virtualization community's efforts and grab some .vdi's that are ready to rock.

It's a great way to check out new alpha and beta releases and lesser knowns like Mandriva 2009.