On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:29 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: > On 23/09/10 22:25, Dan Dart wrote: > >> Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-) > > Oh, me! me! me! Pick me! > > > > I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM. > > As soon as they are I use them full time. And make sure everything is > > fixed before release day (submitting bug reports etc) THEN being > > confident of being able to use the stable system. > > VMs are for scaredy-cats - I installed Maverick Meerkat on my desktop a > week or so ago! > > That said, I do daily backups and my desktop machine is hardly what you > would call 'production'. > > Sean > Pah.... I upgraded to Maverick Meerkat 2 weeks ago on my day to day netbook..... It collapsed in a heap and I had to blat it and start again going back to 10.04.....
I really shouldn't make decisions to do stuff like this at midnight.... VM's are the future.... Where else would I run that single app that only runs on windoze ;)..... Bryn .... wandering off topic..... -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
