[Ubuntu Oregon] Ubuntu membership

Joshua R. Poulson jrp at pun.org
Wed Nov 26 23:44:08 UTC 2014


Unusual non-production hardware is great for confirms but not triage
necessarily. If that hardware is really unusual, you might need to let
someone else log into it to diagnose things. VMs work too. And like Walter
said, confirming and triaging bugs is really good too.

I still run stuff on a 32-bit only Dell XPS 600, but I mostly use it as my
dedicated IRC box and my first "upgrade-manager -d" candidate. It's been
upgraded in place for each release since 10.04!

--jrp

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Patrick Olson <compman42 at linuxusers.us>
wrote:

>  This sounds like something that should be run on a spare system, not on
> a desktop that I need to keep up and running without fail. Am I
> understanding correctly?
>
> I do have a spare system, but it's really old (550MHz, 192MB of RAM, 2GB
> disk), so not sure if it would even run a current version of Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:28:08 -0800, Joshua R. Poulson <jrp at pun.org> wrote:
>
> One of the ways to help with testing is to enable -proposed and to quickly
> file bugs with any packages that come through that, especially the kernel.
> This is not necessarily for the faint of heart, though, as carefully
> unravelling upgrades (and knowing what dist-upgrades are safe) may be
> necessary.
>
> I used to do this all the time with Public Cloud images... but that's
> kinda part of what I did.
>
> --jrp
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Patrick Olson <compman42 at linuxusers.us>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:31:07 -0800, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>
>> > wrote:
>> [stuff about testing…]
>> > Oh, I was thinking of something a bit smaller.
>>
>> What kind of testing did you have in mind?
>>
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