testing partitions ?

[Bill Marcum]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:54:24 -0500, ANU DEV 
  <anubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Acttually my laptop runs Windows only but another PC has Ubuntu breezy 
> only. If I download program packages from the internet to test and run 
> does it need a special partition to test a program ? Is testing done 
> as root or superuser ? I have data in the ubuntu PC which I dont want 
> to lose if it crashes while testing. Can someone help explain this
> please.

What kind of programming do you intend to do?  Writing device drivers or 
modifying the kernel?  For most user-space programming, there is no need
to make a special partition, and if your program crashes it won't crash 
the entire system.


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