There's some feeling been shown by Novell staff, that too few ppl are testing Beta's and RC's.
Well, in my case I won't test on my hardware (aka bare metal install) because I need a functioning system, and I can't take my computer down for daily restarts to test the each build of the next release (it's a fileserver, webserver etc.). As a compromise I install as many builds as I can into a VM (mainly VirtualBox) and tinker there. Almost always by the time I run into a bug it's already been reported. The disadvantage of doing all my testing in a VM is that a lot of the quirks of installing on the actual hardware will never show up. I think as long as there are clearly defined releases that run in their own Ivory Tower of application versions, we will be facing this problem. People don't always have a spare computer with common/duplicate hardware configs just laying around to use as a testbed. They often have one machine and can't really afford the downtime if something goes wrong. I don't know the solution... continuous updating the head as Gentoo does? That approach has some major problems too. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org