Two (or more!) mints in one

[forsyth]

Okay, so. I am absolutely done with Vista on this thing, when the computer runs a high quality downloaded version of a video slower than streaming the same video from Youtube, I'm done.

So, since I have access to (legal, even!) copies of WinXP and Windows 7, I'm thinking I'll put both on here. And also plan on putting on some kind of Linux, so that leads to my techie question. What's the best program or system to set up a computer to dual (or more!) boot?

Suggestions on good varieties of Linux that support HP laptop stuff are welcome too.

Comments

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

If you're dual-booting with Linux you'll be using GRUB as your bootloader, I would imagine.

I like Fedora Linux but I have no idea how well it plays with HP laptop stuff, sorry.

[raanab.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of Ubuntu and its offspring, you don't get the fun of having all the new bells and whistles as they come out, but I've never had to recompile my graphics driver whenever there's a distro update either. The other nice thing is that you install off a live cd so that you can see how it likes your hardware before you install it.

Also, especially with windows 7 make sure you check the instructions for the linux distro you pick. At least when it was in beta you did need to do a little extra work to set up dual booting.