Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 06:15:16 pm Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> > What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated.
>
> I like running Stable machines. But web browsers need to keep
> current. It would be great if they were in squeeze-updates, aka the
> old volatile. So instead I run a Sid chroot and install Firefox and
> Chromium there and run them out of the chroot. It is a little more
> work to set up. I create the chroot with deboostrap and then install
> everything needed. And it uses a significant amount of disk space.
> But it works very well for me to keep my desktop Stable but have the
> latest web browsers from Unstable Sid.
>
> Bob
+1 if one has the hardware vm's offer any combo of os's/apps one could want. I use
Virtualbox and run several vm's over multiple monitors, even a Windows NT4, but
Debian stable is the host with the most :-)
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Peace,
Greg
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