XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: thorongil@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Tuesday 08 July 2014 15:15, bad sector conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mageia...   
      
   > On 07/08/2014 07:38 AM, bad sector wrote:   
   >   
   >> The succes of linux can only rise if more people walk the multi-OS   
   >> road. Because I juggle 4 OS's on each of 4 computers (soon 5) I make   
   >> sure that all users have exactly no user name as such, the same   
   >> userid's AND same number in the same groups on all installations. I'd   
   >> like to see the day when at least in this department enough   
   >> cross-distro standardization exists for multiple OS's to be able to   
   >> use the one and same /home on a dedicated partition. Ideally in such   
   >> a setup a new installation would simply 'adopt' the there existing   
   >> users as they are, end of story. This would require that all user   
   >> data reside exclusively there.   
   >   
   > by OS's i meant strictly linux (of course)   
      
   Yes, we understood that you weren't talking of *BSD, IRIX, HP/UX, AIX or   
   Solaris. ;-)   
      
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