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(Unverified)Jan 3rd 2008 6:58PM

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Good tips. I'm still surprised why distros don't default to installing /home on a separate partition?

I would add the tip: "get to know how packages work".
It's one of the main differences from linux which sometimes
scares people off, but is easy to learn.

Here are hopefully some helpful links:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/packaging.html

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(Unverified)Jan 4th 2008 6:34AM

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Funny you should mention that, Padraig. There's actually a future Switch piece in the works on packages/package management.

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