• Registered: 2009-02-02
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Topic: Alpha what now?

Does crunchbang release its equivalent of jaunty or karmic for us cool kids to play with? Or are we only given fully functional and efficient releases? It doesnt matter in the long run for me, but since I enjoy testing, and have a weird obsession with having the latest and greatest, it would be fun. Im also just kind of curious as to how the release schedule for #! goes, as everyone knows the entire ubuntu one. (I'm going to guess that the release and dev schedule is just up to when corenominal decides to do what he wants big_smile)

  • From: Scotland, Cold
  • Registered: 2009-01-17
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Re: Alpha what now?

We're still in Testing stage for 8.10/03 I'm afraid.

We do testing, then release, then bug-fix updates.

Once 8.10.03 is outta the way, and 9.04 is into Beta, I'm guessing Philip will start getting the testing branch of 9.04.01 ready.

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  • Registered: 2009-02-02
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Re: Alpha what now?

Is there a way to be a part of said testing?

  • From: Scotland, Cold
  • Registered: 2009-01-17
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Re: Alpha what now?

yes, just wait patiently.

If you look on the forums, you will see a thread called "64-bit testing" which is testing for .03

There will be an equivalent thread I'm sure once the 9.04 testing comes around.

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  • Registered: 2008-12-13
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Re: Alpha what now?

if you want to test what it may be like then you can do a minimal install of jaunty then do the upgrade mentioned in the 64bit testing thread. it worked fine last time i tried it.

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  • Registered: 2009-02-02
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Re: Alpha what now?

I would...but jaunty doesnt like the keyboard and mouse on my mini....that and i dont have good luck with minimal installs as they seem to not work when done from a liveusb (3 attempts failed)

  • Registered: 2008-12-13
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Re: Alpha what now?

it was on a mini i did it, you need to tell it to look for the cd on usb instead if you know what I mean, for some reason it doesn't do it automatically on the minimal install, something like detect-cdrom=usb (you'll have to google for the exact kernel parameter I forgot it now)

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
  • Registered: 2009-02-02
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Re: Alpha what now?

iggykoopa wrote:

it was on a mini i did it, you need to tell it to look for the cd on usb instead if you know what I mean, for some reason it doesn't do it automatically on the minimal install, something like detect-cdrom=usb (you'll have to google for the exact kernel parameter I forgot it now)

Huh?

  • Registered: 2008-12-13
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Re: Alpha what now?

ok I guess I didn't explain that well. On the mini 9 I assume your booting from a thumbdrive, on the minimal install iso it still looks for a cdrom not a thumbdrive, thats why your install fails. To fix it (if your using unetbootin) when the bootloader comes up and you have the option to edit the line with the kernel parameters( I think you need to hit tab at the bootloader) then you need to add at the end of the line 

cdrom-detect/try-usb=true

the install should work correctly after that.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
  • Registered: 2009-02-02
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Re: Alpha what now?

I may have to give it a try...if it works I <3 you

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  • Registered: 2008-12-20
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Re: Alpha what now?

I upgraded to 9.04 alpha6 on my eee 901 running 1# and it works great.  I havent moved over to ext4 as it was a basic upgrade over my exisiting 8.10.

What really impressed me was a very significant reduction in boot time from 42s to 31s (from switch on to desktop) a rapid boot means a lot to me on the eee as I switch it on and off a lot so this is really impressive. In the past I had to hack ubuntu to get it down to 42s but jaunty runs quick out of the box with no tweaking and the standard kernel. Up to now sub 30s boot times were mainly achieved with debian sid, arch, xandros and xp. Looks like !# will be joining them soon.

Some small things dont work eee-control, camera, wifi toggle, but amazingly sleep (F1) does work these things were all problematic on previous versions too.

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