On 18/4/2013 5:11 μμ, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I*strongly* second that. In real, professional work environments, you've got developers, testers, and production, on*separate* boxes; if you're short on hardware and cash, a VM on the dev box is the way to go.
To expand on this correct advice:
You can use CloneZilla or mondorescue to clone your production system to a test VM; then experiment there as much you like. :-)
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