Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1785 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anton Aylward wrote:
> > > Not all of us are developers, but we are all users, and we can ALL
> > > >>  test... every one of us, even if it means installing a virtual machine
> > > >>  on a Sunday afternoon during the RC phase... commenting about how it
> > > >>  wasn't tested enough doesn't help matters one iota.:-(
> > >        
> Indeed.
> And comparing something that doesn't work with something that does work
> to discover the differences is also a good exercise.  I different
> circumstances I'd run two VMs:-)   Sadly my laptop, my stable 11.4,
> doesn't have enough disk and memory for that, so I'm using a Salvation
> Army clunker to run Fedora with a small disk and lots of stuff NFS
> mounted to the laptop to make up for the lack of space :-/
> Don't laugh; it works!   And it demonstrates the flexibility and power
> of Linux.
>
> If you*DO*  have the space to run two VMs and do a side-by-side then try it.
>
>    

I have a spare desktop system, where I normally install a new distro, 
before installing it on my main systems.  However, in this case, I 
bought a new computer that wasn't fully supported in an earlier distro, 
so I installed 12.1 RC1 & 2, before the released version, so I used it 
for my testing.
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