[ubuntu-in] sharinf /home between distros

[Onkar Shinde]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, mallikarjun arjun
<mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:37 PM, mallikarjun arjun
>> <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> > I am a long term ubuntu user but am interested in fedora want to install
>> > on
>> > my system(not virtual image) i have /home on separate partition
>> > (1) can i share single /home between ubuntu and fedora
>> > (2) if so will the configuration files stay intact and consistant?
>>
>> If fedora is using same major versions, of all applications you are
>> using, as Ubuntu then I feel you should have ideally no problems with
>> configuration.
>>
>>
>> Onkar
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> forget about applications(say i have same applications on both),  i am
> talking about other configurations like Gnome settings, etc
> But i think there might be problems when kernel gets updates in repos at
> different times for different distron.

The reason I asked about applications is because of the configuration
settings only. The configuration settings and data formats may change
between different version of an application.

Kernel is not in your home directory. So there is no reason why it
will cause problem in your home directory.


Onkar