On Friday 25 November 2005 11:00, John Ryan wrote:
Hello,
I am in the process of setting up a multi-boot
system, where I may have Suse, Ubuntu and possibly another
variant of linux. (I am in learning mode)
Will there be any problems if I mount /home on one
partition (say on /dev/hda5), and use that partition as /home for all
of the flavours of linux?
Would there be conflicts when installing one system if another already
has its /home on /dev/hda5 or when upgrading? i.e. will the upgrade or install wipe
the existing /home?
Would there be any problems with using Gnome on one linux and kde on another?
Would it be OK to share say Thunderbird email between the different flavours
even if the versions of Thurderbird differed slightly?
Is it a good idea?
John
Unless your learning the differences between variants of Linux I don't see any advantages. I'd of thought it would be OK, however, I think some versions store programs in slightly different locations - allthough I'm not sure they should. I think you'd be better off choosing one and staying with it. Since the early nineties I've used slackware / redhat and now SuSE and for me by far the best has been SuSE - mainly because it has the best support forum but also because it's keenly priced for the box set (I always buy the box set, but skip a release i.e. v7, v9 and next v11 this gives SuSE some support while not costing me money every year) and it's easily available in Europe. Phil