Guy runs 100 operating systems at same time

ben_j_davis · 13 Feb 2006 at 09:48

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29647

These Linux people, i dont know.

AJUK · 13 Feb 2006 at 09:49

Why?

MR_Punk · 13 Feb 2006 at 10:03

cant see the point or the benefit

Dunky · 13 Feb 2006 at 11:22

Hmmmm not as great as I thought. I thought the title meant running 100 OS at the same physical time (through VMWare or something similar) but instead he just has lots of partitions and one huge boot list. I can understand quad-boots and stuff but anything above 6 OS's and I think you are into the VMWare / Virtual PC/Server zone.

NathanE · 13 Feb 2006 at 11:23

I think somebody needs to break the concept of a "virtual machine" (VMware) to him gently...

Conrad11 · 13 Feb 2006 at 11:32

Sorry but this made me crack up:

Of course, while it might impress his girlfriend, his fellow geeks feel that he did miss some fairly interesting operating systems such as HURD-, QNX-, L3 or Mach-based operating systems, or any L3/L4 microkernel-based OSes.

Foxor` · 13 Feb 2006 at 15:19

Hahahaha im not even going to read the artical, pointless

Psyk · 13 Feb 2006 at 15:53

Wow I thought I went over the top with 3. Although I'm now back down to two and one of those I still don't really use.

modo77 · 13 Feb 2006 at 15:55

AJUK said:
Why?

Cause some people are idiots

Otacon · 13 Feb 2006 at 17:04

AJUK said:
Why?

Proof of concept is about the only thing I could come up with. Though why an individual would want to prove such a thing is another matter :/

BoomAM · 13 Feb 2006 at 23:08

An interesting read.
But its not a first by any means. I remember reading a similar 'project' a few years ago, where some bloke had every version of windows (from 1 to XP) & DOS installed on this PC, as well as 50+ other OS's.