Using Wine: Seterra on Edubunto

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:05:29AM -0400, Simón Ruiz wrote:
:You sent me off on a researching frenzy with that as it sounded really
:great...someone should come up with a way of implementing that
:functionality (just use these files unless and until you need to
:modify one, then just create your own copy of just that one), though
::-) It'd be insanely useful for a LOT of things.

Sorry if htis is a non sequitur I haven't been following this
thread...

Sounds like you're looking for a copy on write filesystem, unionfs
under linux can do this sort of thing.  I've used it as with nfsroot
filesystems where there's a common readonly root with individual
writable overlays for each booted system fo /dev, /tmp, /var etc...

It's a direction to look in.

-Jon