Re: [Sheflug] Virtualisation and using debian packages with ubuntu

[Simon Brown <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Tim Dobson (lists@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> If you are not running servers, use virtualbox.
> If you are running servers, don't use virtualbox.
> :)
Why is that?

> google for them?
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=e17+ubuntu
> seem to turn up a few worthwhile links imho.
All of the links out there point at old packages. I was hoping a
debian wizard would tell me that there's a automagic way of dowloading
the source packages are rebuilding them. I seem to remember back some
years that Alex H built his own X11 from source packages in a
reasonably automated fashion.

further digging in Debian land required.

Simon
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