On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most > developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do > development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for > development use only or development+personal use? I know -current can > break sometimes and am just curious to know if developers risk putting > personal stuff on a laptop that is being used for active development.
Laptops are great - you can keep your entire world on them and take it with you. Less fussing about which machine you left some project on... may as well keep personal stuff there too. With regard to risk, a laptop is just a computer and is just as fallible as any other computer. Plan accordingly. I take nightly snapshots of /etc /home and /var - If I have to, I can to a fresh install on a new machine, pour my backup onto it and be back up and running ... pretty much as fast as the disk/net will run. -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
