[TriLUG] Follow-up: why do you run multiple distros?

[mvlewis at mindspring.com]

I started out using Slackware back in '92 and had to download the disk sets from sunsite.  Since then I have tried out several distros to see which ones I like.  I ran mandrake for a LONG time and eventually switched to redhat.  Ran until the fc change and used fc exclusively up until a couple of weeks ago.  I installed centos on a box to play with and ubuntu on an empty drive to play with.

I am going to switch to ubuntu as I am VERY impressed with it.  I have become increasingly frustrated with my fc6 install.  One of the updates made a change to the os that makes the machine unstable(reboots at random during day and kicks user out of session back to gdm login).  As I don't actually do $WORK on my home machines,  a wipe and reinstall is never too far away.  I have removable drive bays,  so booting ubuntu is just a matter of swapping drives and restarting the machine.

At work,  I use whatever live distro that I have handy(usually slax and ubuntu) to boot one of the unused machines to noodle around with.  Since we use windows at work,  it doesn't really count I guess.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
>Sent: Apr 20, 2007 9:13 AM
>To: trilug at trilug.org
>Subject: [TriLUG] Follow-up: why do you run multiple distros?
>
>All right, so I have a follow-up question. Why do y'all use different 
>distributions for different machines? Doesn't it get confusing?
>