From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFSrV-0000Ie-NA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:01:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4DC6E041A; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862A0E041A for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so8704ewy.34 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:01:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rWaOcYlVrE6QeWezkK9dcpDFkRyBpwo30jYzEjLS4W8=; b=E2wSnirimX/GNh1FbPHk7xR0OH3FVqMAicpJo4Xyh8ezH7fDwnmtF7PPfRUZ4z6MDn kMDMIw5O9h2xqkdVGfOAcfuRtdzW8cgcW86/vggea5+l111QPJYe/Qjv/z2WIdDcPixs 5iTkbW2SntMC/VYIcVqRPu1t7lWQZt+WOD56s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=N+99Be0lr56hXUp1kIDhn836rtcM5lkVvipmIxGvdEypfJvHZbBfVSA/hzAMz/u9Jb Dykucmm+G/W2L4tbEMZxiHwmMGj097G2ncpsc9impaq5UPeYcZTs4DKZN87l65b2QpUQ TeeS7wqWsvp0ITLXeO4nCd9i27XNof12rYk2U= Received: by 10.210.61.8 with SMTP id j8mr4760168eba.60.1244898085754; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.40? (78-105-132-248.zone3.bethere.co.uk [78.105.132.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1962938eya.9.2009.06.13.06.01.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A33A362.7070907@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:02:26 +0100 From: AG User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Considering launching into Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 90bc4c11-c130-48ed-81a0-421896b4cab3 X-Archives-Hash: 2706351fecca223039d2fd3ca5231fd6 Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs. In any event, because I have loads of data on my /home partition, I'm curious about a few things, primarily what are the implications of dual-booting with Gentoo as my second OS, so that I can experience Gentoo without losing my data, etc. How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice versa. Any thoughts/ suggestions? Many thanks AG