Re: update (was 2009spring and kaddressbook)

mschild <mmoo-l/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.newbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The bottom line here is that you should have as good a set of electrical
> filters as you can to smooth and to protect the power coming into your
> computer system's various parts. This should include having uninterrupted
> power supply (UPS) and surge protectors for your various computer gear.
>
I have an 11 year old UPS surge protector + battery
>
> Both of these distributions should be able to live together on the same
> hard drive as long as each has its own partition. They can share a swap
> partition, and a home partition, however, so there will be room for both of
> them. I have not installed these two together, so I don't know the details
> of how they arrange their home folders, but perhaps you can create a
> subdirectory for each of them inside /home, then install your users under
> each distribution. (At least that's what I would try to do until I reach
> certainty that no conflicts exist between the /home folder structures.)

I shall look into all this when I have time and patience. At the moment, I am 
making the most of this system ;-)
thanks
Maryse

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