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How many OSes do your computer have?

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michaeldadmum

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How many OSes do your computer have?
« on: November 10, 2007, 12:33:24 AM »
It is possible to install multiple OSes on a computer. This is useful to prevent total loss of usability when an OS has broken down. We can also use another OS to take back the data. Although nearly all OSes provide a way to recover them, this is not useful especially in Microsoft Windows. I have install 3 OSes on my machine (Windows XP x64, Windows Vista x64, Fedora 8 x64)
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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2007, 03:40:02 AM »
I only use 1 per machine.
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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2007, 03:56:19 AM »
This laptop has Windows XP Pro dual booting (one boot for gaming, the other for general use).
My other PC is constantly being formatted and changed, but usually has anything ranging from Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server, and some variant of Linux, in all weird and wonderful configurations.
It's just for testing purposes, I can get the OSes free from college to help me in my course you see (before anyone starts in about them not being legal).
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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2007, 04:43:37 AM »
I can vouch for that Calum.My son got everything free from College
too when he was a undergraduate..

He also got 'Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise' for 200 USA Dollars.

Something to do with Microsoft and him being in Computer Science.


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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2007, 08:38:45 AM »
I have Win 98SE and Win XP Pro installed on the same machine.  Win 98SE may be coming off in the near future; I rarely boot up with it now and, if I do want to look at Win 98SE for some reason, I have an older computer here that has it.

My goal now is get Linux Ubuntu installed on some box, either my main computer with Win XP Pro, or another one.
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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2007, 10:45:03 AM »
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I only use 1 per machine.
Same here.
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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2007, 02:39:24 PM »
I have 2.  Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu Gutsy.  Only boot into Windows occasionally to burn a DVD-Movie or to game a bit.  Which is pretty rare, actually.
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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2007, 07:07:01 PM »
One might consider me having two operating systems:
Windows Vista
and a Virtual Box running PCLinux, but I dont use it very often.
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Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2007, 07:17:45 PM »
I only have one OS on my computer.
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    Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
    « Reply #9 on: November 16, 2007, 10:07:05 AM »
    trying to get vista and xp to play nice on my machine both have their own harddrives
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    Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
    « Reply #10 on: December 02, 2007, 02:05:17 AM »
    I just have the 1 windows vista basic and  I do not like it atall because it takes up so much resourses and  I cant use any of the programs which i used to. When i bought this new laptop 6 months ago(becasue my other one with xp kept failing) I explained  that I  liked using paint shop pro  and needed one for this and they sold me this rubish :'(. :-X
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    Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
    « Reply #11 on: December 02, 2007, 03:20:33 PM »
    Quote from: bethjess on December 02, 2007, 02:05:17 AM
    I just have the 1 windows vista basic and  I do not like it atall because it takes up so much resourses and  I cant use any of the programs which i used to. When i bought this new laptop 6 months ago(becasue my other one with xp kept failing) I explained  that I  liked using paint shop pro  and needed one for this and they sold me this rubish :'(. :-X

    Resources... Your programs that you own and run take up resources. Vista uses greater amounts of RAM since it has advanced caching features. (So the question should be: "Why didnt XP utilize my resources the way it should?"

    Face it, its the year 2007, not the year 2002 anymore. 512MB is outdated, 1GB is overrated. Get 2GB!
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    Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
    « Reply #12 on: December 04, 2007, 01:05:34 AM »
    Quote from: Zylstra on December 02, 2007, 03:20:33 PM
    Resources... Your programs that you own and run take up resources. Vista uses greater amounts of RAM since it has advanced caching features. (So the question should be: "Why didnt XP utilize my resources the way it should?"

    Face it, its the year 2007, not the year 2002 anymore. 512MB is outdated, 1GB is overrated. Get 2GB!
    Alright, enough already. Come down off your soapbox. :P

    If you're talking OSes on virtual machines, I have about ten. :P Some with XP, some have server2003, and even a couple with bsd that I don't use very often.
    Usually, I just run BeOS, SuSe, or XP, depending on what I want to do.
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    Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
    « Reply #13 on: December 04, 2007, 02:12:35 AM »
    I have too many computers around here...

    Main Desktop - WinXP & Fedora
    Laptop (on order) - Xandros
    HP iPAQ - Windows Mobile (does that count?  :P)
    4 Test Systems in workshop - 1 Vista, 2 XP, 1 Knoppix

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      Re: How many OSes do your computer have?
      « Reply #14 on: December 31, 2007, 02:32:26 PM »
      Desktop has 2 OS (WinXP & Win98SE)
      Laptop has 2 OS (WinXP & Win2KPro)
      I also run once in a while a Live CD version of Linux's Ubuntu 7.10 to see what's all the fuzz about it. It's kind of cool I like it.
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