On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:34:37 -0500
"Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Download Ubuntu 11.10  :-)  
> 
> As you may recall, networking did not work on 11.10.  Reinstalling 10.10 now.

11.10 to 11.04?  11.10 only just came out of beta.

In general I think what you're experiencing is not really linux's
fault.  Window's doesn't use Python, so it's easy to install different
version without impacting the system.  Linux, or at least Ubuntu, uses
Python extensively, so if you want to test different versions you need
to use some sort of isolation technology like virtualenv or Virtual
Box.  virtualenv is specifically for python and much lighter the Virtual
Box in this case.

If you wanted to test different versions of Window's core C runtime
DLLs you could easily end up in the kind of mess you've encountered
with Ubuntu.

I don't think we want to discourage OSes from using Python just so it's
easier to test different python versions :-}

Cheers -Terry

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