[Discuss] Ubuntu 6.06 release party in Victoria

[Corey Burger]

On 6/1/06, Yves Bajard <netcfs at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Thanks for the invitation, Corey. I may attend.
>
> Now I have a question.é I am new to Ubuntu. I just installed on the side
> of my Mandriva December 2006, Fedora Core5 and Kubuntu 5
>
>
> In the distant past, I had already tried to run three distros in
> parallel and found that the 3home of Mdk 9.0 was not good for Fedora
> Core 2 or Ubuntu 1 at the time.
>
>  I have now created separate /home partitions for Fedora Core 5 and
> Ubuntu 5.
>
> Most of my useful data are in aseparate partitions, which can be mounted
> on any distro separately. However, this does not apply to my mailer
> (evolution 2.4) my several web browsers, multimedia programs etc..whose
> user-specifics are on my Mandriva /home.
>
> The question is: would it be that, by chance,m the /home arrangements of
> Fedora core 5 and Ubuntu have been ,made inter-compatible with Mandriva
> and vice versa?
>
> If not, how could I arrange my files so that I can share my current
> mailer, web browsers and other programs for the same user between my
> three distros, without requiring a full reconstruction of those software
> packages for separate /home partitions?
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
>
> Yves Bajard

Wow, that is a tall order.  I wouldn't recommend it, because of the
settings in each is different and each is running a different version
of GNOME/KDE.

So sorry, i have no easy solution for you. I don't jump distros any more :)

Corey