[mdlug] FWD: MDUG meeting 4-14

[Mathew Enders]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 20:53 -0400, David Lee Lambert wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 07:10 am, Mathew Enders wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:46 -0400, Garry Stahl wrote:
> > > Partion 1 swap.
> > > Partitions 2-12 distros
> > > Partition 12, user home, shared by all distros.
> > >
> > > Are their any problems here I don't know about?
> >
> > Gary the problem with sharing the same home directory with each distro
> > would be incompatable config files.
> 
> While this could be a minor problem,  it's unlikely to be a major one.  I have 
> a home-directory that's been used by Slackware, several releases of Debian, 
> and RedHat,  and the worst thing that happened was that some gnome-panel 
> applets didn't show up after an incomplete upgrade of the same distribution.
> 

I have also done this.  But the distro's were not "sharing" the home
directory as they were installedone at a time.