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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 121127 Randy Westlund wrote: |
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>> I'm a new gentoo user coming from Ubuntu. |
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> Welcome ! |
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>> I've been proving to myself that I can do everything I need with Gentoo |
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>> on a secondary laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it: |
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>> svn repos, AVR cross compiler, multiple screens, etc. I much prefer |
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>> Gentoo to Ubuntu and would like to put it on my primary laptop, |
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>> but I think I should leave an Ubuntu installation on there just in case. |
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>> I'd like to have Gentoo, Ubuntu and Win7 alongside each other. |
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>> How feasible would it be to have Gentoo and Ubuntu share a /home partition? |
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> It's likely to cause problems after a short time, |
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> as the 2 OS's will vary in the way they handle config files |
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> & pkgs wb updated at different times & to different versions. |
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> Try having separate homes, but symlink most of your subdirs in Ubuntu |
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> -- since you are likely to stop using it soon -- to those in Gentoo. |
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> The subdirs to symlink wb those which contain your personal stuff |
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> -- documents, pictures, whatever -- , which won't vary with OS. |
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> SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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Thanks for all the advice. I think I'm going to have separate /home |
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directories and symlink the important things. Given that I don't |
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intend to use ubuntu very much, it makes the most sense. But at some |
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point, I want to try this on a spare machine, just to see what |
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happens. Perhaps if I run xfce on gentoo and kde on ubuntu, there |
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would be fewer collisions. |