Soren, Jacob and Bryan, I REALLY appreciate your input. These are the exact sort of issues that would really mess my installation up without having a prior understanding of theses concepts. It definitely seems to me that I may want to get a "Linux for Dummies" book or something along that line to learn more about concepts such as directory structure, boot managers, symlinking and userids. Do you have any recommendations for a good "overview" book that would cover the main issues you are pointing out? I'm not offended if it really is "Linux for Dummies"! :)
Thanks again, Dave Darrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Soren Harward Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:52 AM To: Newbie Help Subject: Re: [newbies] Which Linux Distributions do you recommend? On Thu 15 Jul 2004 at 09:41:53, Jacob Albretsen said: > Would it be possible / easier to just use a different username for each > distro? The whole point of the unified home directory is so that you can have easy access to the same data in the same distros. Different usernames would defeat this purpose. Although, if you don't really need easy access, it would work just as well to have different usernames, provided that the uid's didn't conflict. -- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://theboard.byu.edu/ "Americans are always attempting to run away from conformity, but unfortunately they always start running in the same direction." -- Art Buchwald _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
