Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:10:31AM +0800, Wei Chen wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > It's not officially supported in Stable because the policy is that
> > Stable only gets security updates, not feature updates.
> Oh, didn't know that.
> > 
> > Another important question: are you a "user" who just wants to get
> > his work done, or a "computer geek enthusiast"?
> > 
> I am mainly the first type, but I occasionally want to play with my
> computer.
 
So why not do both?  Assuming that all your hardware runs under Etch,
have a good etch setup that "just works", on one set of
partitions/drives.  Put /home on its own partition.  Put Lenny on its
own set of partitions.  Then you can:

	Boot Etch and run etch's apps to get work done.

	Boot Etch and run Lenny's apps in a chroot to test out new
	features.  This is simpler than compiling newer versions from
	source.

	Boot Lenny to see how its working.

The first two can be done concurrently by different users.

I've never done it.  However, its possible since up until recently this
was how one had to access some 32-bit (i386) stuff on amd64.

YMMV.

Doug.