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 <compma...@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 <j...@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 <w...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Patrick Olson <compma...@linuxusers.us> >> wrote: >> > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:31:07 -0800, Walter Lapchynski <w...@ubuntu.com> >> > wrote: >> [stuff about testing…] >> > Oh, I was thinking of something a bit smaller. >> >> What kind of testing did you have in mind? >> >> -- >> @wxl >> Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA >> Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact >> Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-us-or mailing list >> Ubuntu-us-or@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-or >> > > > > > -- > Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > -- > Ubuntu-us-or mailing list > Ubuntu-us-or@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-or > >
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