[Digikam-users] Some linux questions

[todd rme]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/9/28 Paul Verizzo <paulv at paulv.net>:
>> I know this isn't about digiKam, but the fact is that I look on the folks in
>> this list serve as being good, intelligent sources on linux matters.
>>  Instead of posting to some generic Linux site and getting all kinds of
>> answers from idiotic to disdaining and occasionally helpful, I'd like to ask
>> your thoughts on the following questions.  Please respond back channel paulv
>> (you know what) paulv.net
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> The questions are,
>>
>> 1.  If I have a hard drive with a working linux distro on it, and I want the
>> hd to have other distros in addition, do I need to have separate partitions
>> for each distro?  What about the swap partition?
>
> yes, using a partition for each / of distro is the best way. You can
> share /home, /tmp, swap, etc between distro.
>
> To try other distro, why not to use VirtualBox ?
>
> Gilles Caulier

Or a livecd.

-Todd