[gnome-love] Re: Best way to run Development/CVS Gnome?

[Michele Cella <michele cella gmail com>]

Hi Steven,

Take a look at this very nice tutorial [1] written by Federico Mena, 
it's for Novell Linux Desktop but I think it should work also on Ubuntu.

Ciao
Michele

[1] http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/jhbuild-nld/index.html

Steven Garrity wrote:
> I'm wondering what the best setup might be for someone who's interested 
> in keeping up on Gnome development in CVS. I'd like to be running the 
> latest CVS for testing, feedback, and hopefully some patches.
>
> What I'm wondering is, what are the setups that work best for people? Do 
> you keep the latest development stuff on your primary machine? Do you 
> have a dual boot with dev/stable? Do you have a secondary machine?
>
> Do a lot of developers run the development version of distros (Rawhide, 
> Breezy, etc.)?
>
> Also, do I understand the technology correctly that Xen might be a good 
> way to run a development version of Gnome (or whatever system) as a 
> virtual machine on top of your stable primary desktop?
>
> Any thoughts/advice would be appreciated. Thanks,
> Steven Garrity