triple boot

I have decided to get a little more active in the Ubuntu community. And since I have an SSD now, my system reboots in about 25 seconds. Obvious choice: having multiple OS'es on my boot drive.

I considered virtualization, but there are some things (like video encoding) that really need access to the hardware. Otherwise they are orders of magnitude slower.

So my current scheme is a triple boot:

• Stable Ubuntu (10.04) - Also includes my Fortran compiler setup for work. Kind of a pain to install, so I will keep Lucid around for that.
• Kubuntu (10.04) - I occasionally need KDE for a couple of programs I like, but I would rather not contaminate my GNOME environment with KDE crap. Had some issues with opening files though, so I think I will move to Kubuntu 10.10 soon.
• Dev Ubuntu (11.04?) - Right now I have 10.10 RC installed and it's quite nice. I will probably install the 10.10 release when it comes out. Then I'd like to get into user testing, and install 11.04 alpha when it comes out. Or even nightly builds eventually. I'm not really familiar with the unstable Ubuntu channels, so I figure a throwaway dev partition on my drive could be interesting.