[Novalug] dual install

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 14:01:54 EST 2008


On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 12:39 -0500, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> Bonnie: I would be very careful about what you suggest: in Nautilus, 
> "turn-on" view-hidden-files (ctrl-H). There's a huge number of "dot" 
> files there. Some of them have content that relates to things like 
> profiles in Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
> 
> Example problem: I recall recently that one version of Ubuntu was 
> sticking with Firefox 2.x while another had moved to 3.x. The former 
> used bookmarks.html while 3.x uses another scheme. I'd hazard a guess 
> that other parameters set for apps in "dot" files might be confabulated.
> 
> I wouldn't do it, especially since 8.10 is going places, 
> application-wise, that the "LTS" / 8.04 version is not.

I dual-booted 6.10 and 7.04 at one point.  The changes in applications
and GNOME from version to version resulted in 6.10 not allowing me to
login to GNOME anymore.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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