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NAME="INTRODUCTION">1. Introduction</H1
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>As a developer, there is occasionally a need to code and/or
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test programs on multiple Linux distributions. This mini-howto
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in many cases, obviate the need to reboot into different Linux
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distributions to do testing or development. </P
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>In a nutshell, the "trick" is to place all the files from a
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particular linux distribution into a single directory and then
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develop/test/debug your program. This approach will work provided
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that:
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>The kernel version of the "main" or "primary" distribution that you
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NAME="COPYRIGHT">1.1. Copyright and License</H2
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>This document is copyright 2001 by Ed Hill III. Permission is granted
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to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
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GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version
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published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
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with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the
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license is available at <A
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