[ale] Ubuntu to Debian Switch?

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Wed Mar 9 14:40:46 EST 2011


On 3/9/2011 2:28 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> I do NOT want to discuss Ubuntu's ethics on this thread.  There's a
> separate thread for that.
>
> Has anyone switched from Ubuntu to Debian and kept /home around?  I
> currently have an eCryptFS-encrypted /home dir, and I'd like to keep
> that encryption, my preferences, and my data intact.  /home is a
> separate partition (actually an LV on LVM on software RAID-1), so I
> should just be able to blow Ubuntu away and install pure Debian,
> right?  (I'm thinking Debian testing...)
I have switched any number of distros on my laptop, keeping /home
intact+ mail & bookmarks..
even went from KDE to gnome to LXDE to XFCE..
my current configuration is Debian Squeeze with trinity KDE 3.5
and XFCE..

-- 
Paul Cartwright



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