beta in open source world and commercial world is different. beta quality in foss as you know just meant, it is not production ready, but you can try it
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:09 PM, fenris <mohdfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks for the info bro and i agreed .. btw .. myself referring to here: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta2 > > "It should come as no surprise that this beta release of Lucid Lynx > contains other bugs. Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions > will help fix bugs and improve future releases." > > > just my 2 cent > > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Hasan Abu Bakar <ha...@kelate.com.my>wrote: > >> I thought I didn't skip ITS330 (Information Systems Development) class >> when I was at UiTM and I am right. Here is the definition of BETA >> release software >> >> from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta >> >> "Beta version software is likely to be useful for internal >> demonstrations and previews to select customers." >> >> At this point, VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 is far from useful, it is _useless_ >> >> So ejat, revise it :) >> >> >> >> Hasanuddin Abu Bakar >> ------------------------------- >> Ubuntu embedded developer/tester >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/bizkut >> >> Get FireGPG for your Firefox! http://getfiregpg.org >> >> PGP Public Key >> http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC5A1B11965D43C5C >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:12 AM, fenris <mohdfen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > bro .. nama pun beta .. thats y they needed a tester like u so u can >> report >> > back what a the lack for their new product :) >> > >> > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar < >> bizkut...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Fast result, it doesn't work on windows server 2008 x64. instant error >> >> on guest boot up. Poor beta quality. It should be unreleased or alpha >> >> or something like that before they can call it beta. >> >> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=30344 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hasanuddin Abu Bakar >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> Ubuntu embedded developer/tester >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/bizkut >> >> >> >> Get FireGPG for your Firefox! http://getfiregpg.org >> >> >> >> PGP Public Key >> >> >> http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC5A1B11965D43C5C >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar >> >> <bizkut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > So Oracle owns VirtualBox. How do you think about this guys? >> >> > >> >> > VirtualBox Version 3.2.0 is a major update. The following major new >> >> > features were added: >> >> > • Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle >> Corporation, >> >> > the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox and all references >> were >> >> > changed without impacting compatibility. >> >> > • Experimental support for Mac OS X guests >> >> > • Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM >> >> > used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more >> information) >> >> > • CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain >> >> > Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information) >> >> > • New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, >> using >> >> > large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more >> >> > information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now >> >> > supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and >> >> > protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds >> up >> >> > guest OS booting) >> >> > • Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running >> >> > • Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual >> >> > for more information) >> >> > • USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no >> >> > Guest Additions are available >> >> > • LsiLogic SAS controller emulation >> >> > • RDP video acceleration >> >> > • NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage >> >> > • Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications >> from >> >> > the host system >> >> > • OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve >> settings >> >> > that are not part of the base OVF standard >> >> > >> >> > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30287 >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Hasanuddin Abu Bakar >> >> > ------------------------------- >> >> > Ubuntu embedded developer/tester >> >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/bizkut >> >> > >> >> > Get FireGPG for your Firefox! http://getfiregpg.org >> >> > >> >> > PGP Public Key >> >> > >> http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC5A1B11965D43C5C >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ >> >> >> >> Facebook Fan page >> >> >> >> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 >> >> >> >> http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my >> >> >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> >> >> Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<osdcmy-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en >> > >> > -- >> > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ >> > >> > Facebook Fan page >> > >> > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 >> > >> > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my >> > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > >> > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<osdcmy-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en >> >> -- >> Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ >> >> Facebook Fan page >> >> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 >> >> http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. >> To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<osdcmy-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en >> > > -- > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > Facebook Fan page > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<osdcmy-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en > -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. 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