Dale wrote: > Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home > directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on > with something new. > I strongly recommend keeping a separate partition for /home; it makes things a lot easier if and when you switch. It also makes backing up the whole partition with dd very easy.
> This is the beauty of Linux. > Heh indeed; you can even keep an lvm setup across distros. I used to have `gentoo' and `debian' volume groups and it's easy to mount logical volumes in either direction (/home was on a separate large physical partition.) -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)