We’ve all heard the “my 100TB NAS is full of Linux ISOs” joke but how many of you actually hoard ISOs? I just noticed I have ~100GB, so not that many though definitely way more than I need (I just like to try new distros on my VMs and I never delete them after).
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I don’t really hoard them. I keep a collection of ISOs on a 16 GB Ventoy drive, but that’s not a lot.
I delete older ones as soon I downloaded a new one. I guess, my isos take well below ~15 GB of space. It is only Debian, Fedora and Gentoo afterall.
tbh I should just delete the old ISOs I have as well, they’re practically useless since the package repos don’t even support them anymore
Only the ones I use on a USB stick with Ventoy.
Pretty much the same, until the middle fell out of my keychain usb drive
deleted by creator
Nice try FBI.
Most of the things I horde that’s legitimate are firmware for hardware. All too often I need the firmware and the hardware company had been bought and the new company shuts down the firmware.
Also a few images for soft targets so I can test metasploit ect.
Currently have 12 ISOs, 25 GB worth. Same reason, trying them out in a VM and just keep them around.
You mean my emergency disk space?
I only keep one example of stuff that works for specific devices. Ubuntu 14.04+mac for early Macintels, Linux Mint Debian 32-bit for systems that can’t do 64, evrrything else, latest Mint Debian or Fedora KDE.
I got burned one time where a specific program I was using, broke on the latest release but I didn’t actually test that program till months after the release. I had to just wait until it got fixed, which took another few months. Though tbh if I had saved a copy of the previous release I don’t know if I would have gone through the trouble of reverting
I thought that was a euphemism for porn.
I’m not that into Linux yet
I only happen to save ISOs if I find them on old drives during cleanup. Despite this, I do have 49 Linux ISOs and one FreeNAS ISO too. I don’t have a reason to delete them; I am not short of space.
I keep about 55GB of system ISOs on my server, as an archive. 28GB out of that are w*nodes ISOs. Most of these are the ISOs I regularly use or are hard to find (like win11 old enough to make a local account, Orange Pi Zero 3 proprietary Linux image, etc)
I also seed a few of armbian and proxmox images, so that would be another 50GB.
And I have a 128GB Ventoy USB thumbdrive which is almost half full with ISOs, most of which are Linux
I’ll be staying with win10 ltsc on VMs for as long as I can manage, but most are on a flavour of Linux
I think all the Windows LTSC editions still allow local accounts, that might have changed though
I only keep a few system rescue ISOs plus one or two current installation ones on a thumb drive. Hoarding ISOs serves no purpose. Although I usually have a few lurking around that I forgot to delete from VM tests or the such.
For me it’s more how many glash drives. And I’d rather not talk about it
A handful of ones, mostly just what I run on my home systems, but I also have a Windows 10 and 11 iso for archival purposes, and just in case I have to run a Windows VM for some obscure reason in the future.