Hi,

I want to make my life easier and have Firefox, Thunderbird, and Picasa (a google picture editing and organizing application) be shared between all of the OS's: Win XP, PCLOS, Linux Mint, maybe another Linux.

This article peeked my interest: http://www.thinkdigit.com/index.php?...le&prodid=1118
-It is about sharing FF and TBird between Windows and Linux.

I have some questions about the mechanics of doing this.

1. I assume that I install the respective versions of FF, TBird and Picasa in each OS.

2. FAT32 seems to be the most OS friendly filesystem. So, I believe that the data for each of these applications must be put in a separate FAT32 partition as the article above describes.

3. Are there any tips, tricks or caveats that you would have concerning doing this ?

4. Do you think that Google Picasa could be shared the same way ? I already have a large FAT32 storage partition where I save all pictures, files, music, videos etc... so that Windows and Linuxes can access them.

I am not too experienced with Linux. This is probably the most difficult thing that I have tried to do, so any tips or warnings would be appreciated. I am especially wondering if anything will go awry when windows or one of the Linuxes updates its FF, Tbird or Picase to a new version. Will that hose anything up ?

Thanks,
B.

I don't know about Picasa since it uses WINE - that could add another layer of complexity. As for the rest, I'd try to symlink my configuration files to one central location so that all instances are always perfectly synchronized. That should be perfectly possible; I tend to put my .wine folder on a separate /opt partition and symlink it to .wine in my home partition. Works without a problem.