The Ultimate Multi-OS Computer...

I was surfing tech tv's website, when I saw the mother of all Multi-Boot computers. According to the article it has a total of 57 operating systems. Basically its got every OS you could ever want to play with

TechTV - Richard's Multiboot Menagerie

Wow 57 isn't that something never even heard of that many being on one system. For me that would be way to many for all I need is a Linux and Microsoft or freebsd. I couldn't imagine having that many OS on my system I think it would just take up to much space and you would have problems all the time. Which in the article the guy has six hard drives, I wonder how big each one is O'well.






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Ah, actually I was watching that myself last night, there were 39 OSs on 55 partitions across (I believe) 6 hard drives.

One question comes to mind: Why?

What possible good would that do? Even for learning purposes, it's a total wast of the machine. If you have one computer with over 30 OSses, it would take a month to use each OS for one day. How many of you have ever learned a OS within one day?

Furthermore, by installing dozens of OSses you don't need, your disks get cramped with stuff you never use, rendering the machine useless.

However, if say you're using the computer as a teaching tool at a school computer lab, you could show that there is more then just Windows available. My 2 cents there.

I can see the obvious drawbacks, but still, as far as novelty goes, I think is pretty impressive to have that many operating systems on a computer. I'd gladly settle to just have a dual boot with windows and linux, but I haven't even gotten that to work yet. Can you imagine the problems if a piece of hardware such as a graphics card goes bad, how long it would take to change the settings on all those OS's?

geez, thats alot of operating systems. I didn't even know that so many even existed, unless you were to include all the different distributions of Linux