On 2/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:shrek-m@gmx.de">shrek-m@gmx.de</a></b> &lt;<a href="mailto:shrek-m@gmx.de">shrek-m@gmx.de</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 27.02.2006 09:38, Arthur Pemberton wrote:<br><br>&gt; I have just setup a machine solely for the purpose of testing, I shall<br>&gt; append the specs to this post. For now, I have yummed to<br>&gt; updates-released, adn then updates-testing. What do I do as a tester?
<br>&gt; I have no familiarity with the processs, just the will to help.<br><br><br>you should know&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com">https://bugzilla.redhat.com</a></blockquote><div><br>
Check : already filled a few reports in my Linux life<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should have a lot of time and a good internet-connection</blockquote><div><br>

Question mark : still don't think there are enough hours in a day<br>
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Check : On a university network, all p2p is blocked however, and test
machine conencts to internet through squid on my FC4 workstation. But
bandwidth is normally not a problem, not sure for latency.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should have a good&nbsp;&nbsp;lug=linux user group</blockquote><div><br>
Question mark : local lug discussions are too often off-topic, but can be very helpful <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should know how to quote</blockquote><div><br>
Check <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should not be a mimosa</blockquote><div><br>
Question mark : somewhat clueless as to meaning in this context <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should know&nbsp;&nbsp;rpm, vi, rescue mode, askmethod, interactive mode,<br>runlevel 3,&nbsp;&nbsp;... in other words = how to help yourself
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Check<br>
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Question mark : never needed it as yet<br>
Check<br>
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Check : often no other option exists<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should have a good social environment or a lot of beer</blockquote><div><br>
Question mark : does a large collection of music and frequent visits to /. count?<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">your family/friends should not fall in panic if you are disappeared for<br>several days behind the internet, bugzilla, man-pages, ...
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Check :&nbsp; long since&nbsp; fixed <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">do not try to explain your windows-users-friends&nbsp;&nbsp;what you are doing and<br>why you prefer linux over windows
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Check : lesson learnt the hard way<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">do not try to explain your doctor why you do not know the so called real<br>time, real date, your real name, real actual news, ...
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Check : solution is to not go to doctor <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should not ask yourself why you are spending such a lot of time for<br>and with linux for free
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Check : already know the answer <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you should always have a plan to go back in the so called normal life</blockquote>
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X-mark : I think it is too late for that<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">but ... what do you want to test ?<br><br>- older releases see&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://fedoralegacy.org/">
http://fedoralegacy.org/</a><br>rhl7.3&nbsp;&nbsp;updates<br>rhl9&nbsp;&nbsp;updates<br>fc1&nbsp;&nbsp;updates<br>fc2&nbsp;&nbsp;updates<br>fc3&nbsp;&nbsp;updates<br><br>- actual release updates<br>fc4 updates testing<br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/">
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/</a></blockquote><div><br>
This is what the machine is currently working on.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- new release<br>fc5test3&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/4.92/">
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/4.92/</a><br>+ development<br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
</a><br>==&gt; fc5<br>and later&nbsp;&nbsp;fc5 updates testing<br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/</a></blockquote>
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Now realising that there is a difference, would appericate quick instructions on how to do this.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- rawhide / development<br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/">
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/</a><br><br><br>- next release fc6 ?&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/">http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/</a><br>fc6 test releaeses
<br>fc6test1 ?<br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/5.90/">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/5.90/</a><br>fc6test2 ?<br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/5.91/">
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/5.91/</a><br>fc6test3 ?<br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/5.92/">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/5.92/
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Somewhat scary that these already exist, will still to testing FC5.<br>
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Thanks for the response. Unless anyone in this thread would rather not,
I intend to sumarise the output of this thread into a page/pages at
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org">fedoraproject.org</a><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>shrek-m<br><br>
</blockquote></div>-- <br>As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.