Quick intro

[John Kim]

saucy server daily is available.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/

Backporting alone seems far to great a task for just one person. Is there any documentation in aiding this process? I would love to help, but how is it done?


Peter Matulis <peter.matulis at canonical.com> wrote:

>On 06/13/2013 08:53 AM, John Kim wrote:
>> Hello Peter,
>> 
>> I thought since our primary focus is saucy, we develop the docs for
>> saucy. What I mean is we verify precise and raring bugs to see if
>> they're present in saucy.
>
>After some discussion, yes, this is essentially what we should be
>doing.
> You can even forget Precise.  Install Raring to both verify existing
>bugs and to test their fixes.  Once a daily or beta is published then
>you should switch to Saucy.
>
>As Doug alluded to elsewhere in this thread, there is currently a lack
>of people-power to backport fixes to the older releases.  I will
>personally endeavour to capture the nastier bugs and backport them in
>batches to at least the previous LTS release (Precise at this time).
>
>> And about setting up a server, it could be just any computer into the
>> house (not a full-fledged server machine)? I'm a complete newbie to
>> servers as I have never played with one before.
>
>You got it backwards.  A desktop machine is full-fledged.  A newly
>installed server is very lean and requires much less resources.  Others
>have recommended KVM but LXC is even easier (not good for kernel
>testing
>though).
>
>-pmatulis

-- 
John
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