Den 2016-07-30 kl. 03:15, skrev Tux Ace:
I want to contribute. My plan is to test new releases on old XP boxes
because people turn to linux if their xp machine is unsafe. Any help to get
me started would be appreciated.
Hi Tux,
Old XP boxes with old hardware will often work best with the
light-weight flavours of Ubuntu, while standard Ubuntu may need more
modern hardware to work well.
- 3D graphics ability
- 3 GiB RAM
So I suggest that you try the different Ubuntu family flavours, and
select a suitable flavour (either generally or individually for each of
your old computer) to test alongside standard Ubuntu,
- Lubuntu with the ultra light weight desktop environment LXDE
- Ubuntu-MATE with the medium light weight desktop environment MATE
- Xubuntu with the medium light weight desktop environment XFCE.
You can test in a virtual machine, for example VirtualBox and tweak the
settings (for example RAM size), but I think testing in real computers
is better, if you can dedicate some old computers for that purpose.
-o-
Please test and report according to the testcases at the testing tracker
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/
and report bugs at Launchpad
https://launchpad.net/
if possible from the computer that fails (otherwise from another
computer) with the command line
apport-bug package-name
where package-name is the program package, which you suspect is buggy.
If you don't know which package to blame, you can ask here or at some
other mailing list or forum, for example the Ubuntu Forums.
Best regards
Nio
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