NFS or careful partitioning (Score 1)

Here at work I've been through about a
half dozen UNIX boxen depending on what development
I'm doing. Moving from box to box only take me
a couple minutes of adjustment/toy with some
desktop settings. All my data is kept NFS in home
dirs and apps are NFS /usr/local. The avg home user
could do the same in linux by backing up /home and
/usr/local to CD once in awhile. 20min fresh install,
restore the directories and away you go. This does
not help if you across teh country and want to use your
apps which is a whole different prob.