🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi.  I should have clarified this a bit more in the subject that I'm
very experienced in computers, but not in PC clones.
Anyhow, I'm about to buy a 486 machine, and I have a whole suite of
questions to ask:

-Anybody got a recommendation regarding SVGA cards?  I'm leaning towards
  the Tseng ET4000 since the publicly available BSD386 supports this with
  X.

-Can I have multiple OSes residing on my disk if I partition it?  Ie,
can I select a partition to boot off of?  I would like to put 3 OSes
on the same disk:  BSD386, DOS/Windows 3.1 (NT when avail), OS/2

-What is the latest revision of the freely available BSD386?  Is
it stable?  Has anybody got X11R5 patch level 13 for it?  What graphics
card should I use (I have a Mag Innovision MX15F 15" flatscreen 1280x1024
non-interlaced monitor)?  Does it swap to a file, or do I need to
make a partition?

-Give me some recommendations for PD/shareware and potentially commercial
softwares (hopefully inexpensive :) in the following categories:

  -graphics and image processing
    -I'd like to have something as nice as ADPro on the Amiga
  -GNU emacs??? Does it exist for Windows?
  -GNU C 2.0??? Does it exist for the PC?
  -all the other std GNU utils?
  -audio (I'm going to get a SoundBlaster or clone eventually)
  -scanner control software (I have an Epson ES300C flatbed color scanner)
  -other nifty utilities
  -...

ie, I've found that most machines and OSes have a "MUST HAVE" software
list.  What is this list for the PC? :>
I will summarize to the net if there is sufficient interest.