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 :-) -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107262154.20458.gomadtr...@gci.net