I might have a tendency to break (read: break beyond repair) my workstation's Debian installation.
It gets quite annoying not getting packages installed or having a maximum screen resolution of 640x480, because I'm running Debian Sid (unstable) with some packages from Experimental. So I reinstall. Starting with Debian Stable. Then after a while I need to test something with a package or two from Testing, and that usually works for some time. But then I need something a bit more bleeding edge (not as bleeding as Gentoo but still). Sometimes I find what I need in Unstable, and it only needs a couple of unimportant libraries updated, but most of the time it breaks. If I'm feeling really lucky I might even try a couple of Ubuntu PPAs for something special.
With a fairly recent workstation you're able to deploy virtual machines like a breeze. And I've done that over the years. I find VirtualBox quite nice, but it takes too long or is too much hazzle when I need to test something. (Or I find some other excuses)
Vagrant might change that for me. It integrates with VirtualBox and lets me create a reproducible virtual environment. I spent some time trying to find a Debian "box" that suited me, and I think I might have found it: https://github.com/dotzero/vagrant-debian-wheezy-64. I haven't had the time to use vagrant more than building the box and testing a 'vagrant up && vagrant ssh' yet, but I think it might be handy in the future.
Go Top