sharing /home across distros

[smithie]

hi! more newbie questions ...

i know it is possible to do this ... was just wondering how difficult/easy it is to do, whether it is worth doing, etc.

the only reason i would like to do it is so i can use my development work across the distros (say, for example, all my apache virtual hosts/eclipse workspaces so i can dev on all distros, with the same code/projects).

how would i go about doing this? is it easy? hard? worth it?
while on the subject of development - do people stick their work in /home, or /var?


thanks
smithie

[Roxoff]

Yep, you can do it. Watch out for distros that have wildly differing versions of stuff like firefox, KDE and gnome. Their settings get saved into your home directory, and if one distro's version is trying to read the settings written by a much newer version in a different distro, then you could encounter problems.

[smithie]

Yep, you can do it. Watch out for distros that have wildly differing versions of stuff like firefox, KDE and gnome. Their settings get saved into your home directory, and if one distro's version is trying to read the settings written by a much newer version in a different distro, then you could encounter problems.

hi Roxoff.

is it worth doing, in your opinion?

[Roxoff]

lol, I already share my /home between FC4, 5 and CentOS 4.3, so I'm likely to say yes.

As you're just setting the system up, I recommend that you try it out and see if you get problems. You can always change it later if you need to.