On 23/09/10 22:38, Bryn Jones wrote: > 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....
Heh, sounds familiar. I usually get a nagging doubt creep into my head, too, which I immediately dismiss and then later regret. In fairness though, this time around my doubts were unfounded and Meerkat was my 'best install ever' of recent Ubuntu incarnations. The last few have struggled with my monitor (a 17" Acer) and required serious amounts of faffery to get them to play nice. This one worked from the outset, as did everything else I use regularly enough to know whether it is working or not. There have been a few minor hiccups (unmounting USB drives seems to provoke the occasional crash in Nautilus for instance), but no show-stoppers. > VM's are the future.... Where else would I run that single app that only > runs on windoze ;)..... I run an XP VM on VirtualBox here for a couple of apps that have no Linux equivalents and aren't worth a dual-boot environment. My ancient P4 hyperthreading processor (2 cores-ish) and 2GB RAM lacks the oomph for anything more ambitious than that. That's what I get for donating my newer machine to my son for gaming I guess! Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- 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
