[xubuntu-users] 16.10 Yakkety alpha: signs and symptoms?

[flocculant at gmx.co.uk]

On 25/05/16 08:02, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016 20:54:43 -0400
> JMZ <florentior at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I usually go bold and run the early development version of the next
>> release.  Is there anything I should look for in 16.10 Yakkety
>> alpha? canonical-kernel-team ppa and xubuntu-dev ppa work fine. Nice
>> to be on kernel 4.6.0.
> The obvious thing to look for in a development release is problems :)
> About the only reason I can think of to run yakkety at such an early
> stage is to help find and fix bugs.
>
> You might want to consider running yakkety in a VM or container, and
> have a regular release as a base. That way you can help with testing,
> have access to the newer packages and use a more stable system for
> everyday tasks.
>
> Petter
>
As Petter says - look for bugs - and report them :)

If you're happy running with the dev version - do it - I'll not argue 
about that.

I do that - and in fact set yakkety up the day after xenial was released.

I would though make sure you've either got another yak build running 
behind on updates, or a previous and supported version.

You'll find that the dev mailing list [1] is where you'll see mails 
about what's going on with the development version.

You might want to consider actually being in contact with us - it's not 
often that we find someone who's testing dev version outside where we 
normally look :) [2,3]

regards

Kev

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
[2] http://xubuntu.org/contribute/
[3] http://docs.xubuntu.org/contributors/

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