Introduction

• Hi all and welcome to the Ubuntu tester wiki. The purpose of the wiki is to help new-users, regular users and veteran users of Ubuntu beta releases to have an informative and fun reference base to help with the tedious work involved in beta testing of Ubuntu releases. The page format will also attempt to cast a wider net in hopes of being a user_friendly technical reference base to help others who are testing and/or just plain having fun operating Ubuntu operating systems and products. Of course at this point these current writings only represent a synopsis of a larger schematic proposed by others in the Ubuntu community - so -expect more to come !

Here are some views from Effenberg0x0 CreatorOfTesterWiki .

How to get the Development Release?

Download ISO

HowToDownloadPreciseBeta1
HowToDownloadDailyLivePreciseBuild

Download "Alternative" ISO

What are the differences between the "alternate" and standard ISO?

Upgrade from previous versions

Which versions can be upgraded?

Upgrade Methods

/etc/apt/sources.list method

dist-upgrade method

do-release-upgrade method (Ubuntu Server)

update-manager -d method

Updating the ISO

zsync / rsync method

Installing the Development Release ISO

Methods

Real Machines

Full Disk

Secondary HDD

Partition (dual boot)

External Media

Virtual Machines

Virtualbox

VMWare Player

TestDrive

VMs: Limitations, issues and workarounds

Install Settings

Known issues and workarounds

Wubi issues

Ubiquity issues

Plymouth isues

Setup Ubuntu

What are Proprietary and Open Source Drivers

What is a kernel?

What are Kernel Modules?

Basic Hardware

VGA

Ethernet Card (Wired Network)

Wireless Network Interface

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Sudo Code Definitions

Instructional Development

Throughout testing of past Ubuntu releases a large amount of data was contributed to the forums, mainly in the form of questions and in the replys using sudo code solutions. These contributions are greatly appreciated by all the dedicated members and regular end_users of Ubuntuforums. What I hope to accomplish here in this section is to compile a comprehensive and yet simple list of the most common problems and quick fixes that may entail a fresh installation and subsequent crash. Below is a preliminary list of code that was gathered from Ubuntuforums. SudoCodeHelperLink

Todo

Ideas:

• We had some amazing threads, specially since the OO cycle, which maybe we could use here;
• The stickies at Ubuntu+1 have some information that can probably be summarised / simplified here - investigate;
• Add a "What is a development cycle" section: How Ubuntu is developed, by who, where, how, when and where it is released (Alphas, Betas, RCs, etc), who tests it, how it is tested, where bugs are reported, how to report bugs properly, who manages bugs reports, etc. A basic vision of how Ubuntu development works."