[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 04:01:24PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
Oh, I know my laptop works now... But how sweet would it be with
Compiz? I know the vendor doesn't support it, but there's very
thorough howtos on how to do it. And who knows when the vendor will
get around to supporting it? And besides, it's a learning experience.
...
In all my years of Linuxing, the hardest thing to learn has been how
not to break my "production" machine.
Perhaps some kind of snapshot system where you could restore back to known good
hard drive image? :)
Maybe you could even create a "poor man's snapshot system" this way....
1. Copy ENTIRE harddrive to /tmp/.my_snapshot.
2. Hack away to your heart's content.
3. If any breakage, just diff / against /tmp/.my_snapshot to restore! yay!
I think what you want is VMware. Do all your computing in a virtual
machine and when you break something roll back to the last known good
snapshot. You can keep lots of snapshots and even branch them for
different tasks.
Gus
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