[Slackbuilds-users] hope this isn't a stupid question

Dave Woodfall dave at slackbuilds.org
Wed Apr 8 13:49:13 UTC 2020


On 2020-04-08 09:43,
Glenn Becker <glenn.becker at gmail.com> put forth the proposition:
> Hi -
>
> I am thinking of buying a smallish laptop to dedicate to Slackware. I've
> usually done double-, triple- and occasionally more- boot machines, but my
> distro-hopping is (I think!) coming to an end.
>
> And I was wondering ... if I ran slack-current as my main system, but ran
> slack-stable in a VM, could I use the latter to work on my SlackBuilds? I'm
> by no means well-versed in what is possible or impossible with VMs.

There shouldn't be a problem.  It may likely be a bit slower than on
bare metal though.

--
/dave

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