After nearly a full week of working with this quad-boot setup in various stages of completion, I can say that I am very pleased. It is working well and it is allowing me to easily compare the three different versions of Linux, which is just what I wanted. Here are some notes about each of the versions as I went through the setup and configuration.

- Ubuntu: This probably wins the "dead easy" install and use award. Not only did it just install and run, it was the easiest to get the additional software packages installed on.

- openSuSE: This probably wins the "cantankerous" award.

- Mandriva:

Of course, all three of them are more stable that XP...

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