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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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