This may come as a odd question, but can anyone see a reason for not using BOA on a standard graphical desktop environment?
My question comes from the, maybe wrong, idea that BOA is fitted for a "bare" development and/or production environment, i.e., minimal Debian install, no window manager, "Linode" kind of machine. From what I read on the group discussions BOA tends to be somewhat rigid on the setup options. So a desktop environment, with all the multitude of installed applications and constant updates, may ruin the system.
Does anyone has any thoughts on this?
Do you usually keep BOA on a virtual machine "closed environment", or is it a fully assumed element of your day-to-day work and leisure machine?
In short I'd like to have a fully functional Debian Gnome desktop system with BOA integrated as my webserver development environment without the fear of destroying it with a VLC update.
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Quickstart for BOA ? Local to
Quickstart for BOA ? Local to Production Pipeline
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It is perfectly possible to
It is perfectly possible to install BOA on the Debian or Ubuntu desktop. I'm using it on my netbook with Jolicloud installed. Of course it is recommended only for those who are comfortable with fixing unexpected issues, but in fact we manage a few remote BOA installs on servers with full Debian desktop installed (for whatever weird reason we have no idea about) and it works just fine. This is also where using Octopus is very handy, as it allows you to safely break it and just create next Octopus instance.