Re: Quick intro

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Glass
Hi John! I recently started helping on the server guide as well, and so here are a few tips I can share: - Follow the procedure outlined here [1] for the source checkout and lanchpad/bzr integration. - Using LXC containers, it's very simple to spin up a new, pristine Ubuntu Saucy machine (sudo

Re: Quick intro

2013-06-14 Thread Peter Matulis
On 06/14/2013 12:39 AM, John Kim wrote: I'm confused whether I should stick go virtualization within a distro or dedicate a machine to the bleeding edge ubuntu server. Use LXC. -p -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Quick intro

2013-06-13 Thread Peter Matulis
On 06/12/2013 08:11 PM, John Kim wrote: Hi ServerGuide helpers, My name is John, and I would like to help out in the Serverguide project. Great, we could use more help. I am interested in fixing some serverguide bugs very soon, but I have a few questions. First of all, do I need to set up

Re: Quick intro

2013-06-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, John Kim johnkim.ubu...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Thanks for showing up to the

RE: Quick intro

2013-06-13 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2013.06.13 06:15 Jorge Castro wrote: Virtualization really helps here, you can just test on virtual machines on your desktop and throw them away and rebuild them as necessary. As a bonus you can follow these guides and start improving them as you go along:

Re: Quick intro

2013-06-13 Thread Peter Matulis
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

Re: Quick intro

2013-06-13 Thread 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.matu...@canonical.com

Re: Quick intro

2013-06-13 Thread John Kim
I'm confused whether I should stick go virtualization within a distro or dedicate a machine to the bleeding edge ubuntu server. Personally, I had a terrible experience with virtualization with testdrive. it took forever for the system to load, and I felt as if I had to constantly go through