Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > >> There should be no problem sharing /home provided you are careful about >> a few minor things - principally: > > > Well, and you should be sure that all your distributions always have the > same versions of some of the programs you use. It's not always obvious, > that different versions of the same program use the same or at least > compatible configuration files. > > Notable cases were this most likely doesn't work are kde, firefox, > thunderbird. >
I can't figure out why application developers can't use a little bit of logic here. I like how OOo (version 1) did it, where you had ~/.openoffice.org with a sub directory for each different version. That made it trivial and made it so you didn't have to worry about that sort of thing. > When I had suse and debian on my computer the kde versions were > different enough to become corrupted when read by the 'other' distribution. > > So I would recommend to use different home-directories for both > distributions. You could move your data all in one subdirectory of /home > and make that accessible to your user from the other OS via using the > same user name/user id and/or group and placing a link in that other > home directory. Eg. > ln -s /other/home/data /home/data > That's a pretty nifty idea. > If you happen to have specific configuration files that you want to > share between distributions you could also just link their names from > one home directoy to the other. > > NB: I'm sure it won't take long before you abandon your suse and stick > with debian ;-) > I use SUSE 9.3 Pro at school (it was either that or Fedora, and well let's say that I would rather thrash about in a bed full of rusty razors than submit to using Fedora every day). I found it to be well put together and very slick. Here are my beefs: - yast (at least the GUI version) is slower than molasses - using anything other than KDE (I use WindowMaker, personally) makes certain things feel out of place Now, I don't fault them too badly for stuff feeling slightly odd in WindowMaker, but the utter slowness of yast is inexcusable. Now, for reference the machine is a P4 2.2GHz (not a celery) with 1 GB of RAM. it literally takes upwards of 5 to 10 seconds to bring up yast. Eclipse, which must load an entire JVM and a bazillion extensions, doesn't seem to take so long. Other than that, for me it jsut doesn't feel quite right after being accustomed to the Debian way. However, I feel comfortable recommending it to friends who need a good distro with "support." > At least that happened to me. It's all Debian for me. :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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