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Subject: Re: Development Setups
To: adam.keys@HOTARD.engr.smu.edu
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:22:24 +0100 (BST)
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> I was thinking of starting with a modern machine for developing/compiling on, 
> and then older machine(s) for testing.  This way I would not risk losing data 

That is how I work. One box editing/building and one testing. It also allows
you to stare at dumps, oopses and things as well as the source at the same
time.

> Instead of having separate machines,  there is the possibility of using the 
> Usermode port.  As I understand it this lags behind the -ac and linus kernels 
> so it would be hard to test things like the new VM's.  Usermode would not be 

Usermode Linux is merged with the -ac tree - it is great if you want to do
non device driver hardware work.
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