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How to install 145 operating systems on one PC

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So you think you're pretty hot because you figured out how to load Windows XP and Ubuntu on your PC, huh? Or maybe you've even gone so far as creating a triple boot machine with XP, Vista, and a Linux distribution. Well, one JustLinux forum member has you beat. And by beat, we mean he finished a marathon in the amount of time it took you to cross the street.

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.

[via Lifehacker]

Reader Comments

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1. LMAO !
whats the point ? still very funny though :)

if you can, check out my blog to, http://ultraside.blogspot.com

thanks

Posted at 9:02PM on Sep 13th 2007 by mustra

2. I bet this guy had 145 imaginary girlfriends too

Vmware owns You!

Posted at 8:39AM on Sep 14th 2007 by duke

3. Where's BeOS, DR-DOS, GEOS, Solaris, QNX, etc.?
A bunch of Linux flavors are easy.

Posted at 8:40AM on Sep 14th 2007 by artifex

4. 8 ms licences, yeah right...

Posted at 8:40AM on Sep 14th 2007 by James

5. 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.

Yours Sincerely.

Posted at 8:41AM on Sep 14th 2007 by Ramona loves pictures

6. @Ramona loves pictures: I wonder why anyone would need so many systems on one PC Beats me

Posted at 8:47AM on Sep 14th 2007 by tony

7. wow. nice experiment. most I had was like 3 OS's on a HD.

http://tonycai.com

Posted at 5:26PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Tony Cai

8. 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.

Posted at 6:12PM on Sep 14th 2007 by dmess0r

9. 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.

Posted at 7:49PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Shawn Lower

10. Acronis boot manager is another handy tool when it comes to multi booting.

Pam @ http://iwannamakemoneyonline.com

Posted at 10:37PM on Sep 14th 2007 by pamela richardson

11. 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.

Posted at 7:59AM on Sep 15th 2007 by Teemu

12. No BeOS = failure.

Posted at 7:59AM on Sep 15th 2007 by Noway

13. Where is MacOSX ? ;-)

Posted at 8:01AM on Sep 15th 2007 by Etienne

14. 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.

Posted at 8:02AM on Sep 15th 2007 by 3wbob

15. i now being a geek is more acceptable nowadays, but this is just plain lame. Come on guys..

Posted at 11:03AM on Sep 15th 2007 by tom

16. 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!

Posted at 4:28AM on Sep 16th 2007 by Doppler Duck

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