[pastorjim2]

<b>HELP! I've become an OS maniac.<p>Seems I just can't leave 1 OS running for very long before I go and try a 'newer' or 'better one'<br>box 1-XP, Suse 8.1<br>Box 2 has had: Suse 8.2, RH 9, RH 8, FreeBSD 5, Deb 2.1, 2.2r7 and Oh yeah-Knoppix-the ME was the 1st to go followed by XP<p> Now I do enjoy watching them load up-altho I still can't get the BSD to startx-some hardware thing I guess<br>The Suse on box 1 stays as does the XP-for my ebay things.<br><sm>someone needs to build a "turbo"-type listing program, linux supported for ebay</sm><br>Any other maniacs out there?

[lynch]

Not me,but it's sure fun watchin'
Check out this Maniac
lynch

[snowdog]

Over the years I've had a huge number of OS's running on a wide variety of machines (286, 386, 486, PI-III, K62, Athlon's, etc).
RedHat 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 (an old fav), 7.0, 7.1, 7.3 (still running on my samba server, the wife won't give up on W2K), 8.0
Mandrake 6.0 (just got that with an old 'GNU C++ For Linux' book), 7.0, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0 (download and PowerPack), 9.1 (running on my main machine)
Corel Linux
OpenLinux 2.2, 2.3
Turbo Linux 6.0
Peanut Linux
Vector Linux SOHO
Slackware 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 (running on a third machine)
IcePack Linux 2.75
SuSE 6.4, 7.3, 8.0
QNX RTOS v.6.0
Yopper Linux 3.2.2
FreeBSD 4.7
OpenDOS 7.01
FreeDOS (still sitting on a 486 laptop with a fubar'd battery)
Then a bunch of Windows OS's from DOS 4.0 to XP

Never got beyond dual-booting any of them, unlike the freak from the link lynch provided! I still have most of the disks for those OS's. Most didn't last more than a day or two. Up until Dec of last year, one of my favourite machines was a 286 with 4MB ram and a 256KB video card running DOS 6.0. It couldn't do much, but I loved it (read from the floppy, wait, write to the hdd, wait, read from the floppy, wait, write to the hdd, etc, etc). That computer died, but I still have a couple boxes of brand new 51/4 floppies laying around somewhere. Garage sale season is starting up! "I'll give you 10 bucks for that laser printer with the ethernet port" :-)

[Whiteskin]

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