[09:31] <Form0> Hello
[09:59] <davmor2> Form0: hello
[10:00] <Form0> hi hi
[10:01] <Form0> Been wanting to participate with ubuntu for some time and finally got some free time and figured I'll start with testing
[10:02] <Form0> Now just need to get started somehow :P
[10:07] <davmor2> Form0: grab the latest daily image install onto hardware or vm and test the apps.  When you find bugs file them (using ubuntu-bug appname) and once you find out there is a fix try it.  Sign up to the tracker at http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/ this will then be used just before releases in order to keep track of what iso's have been tested, does that help?
[10:07] <Form0> sure thing
[10:08] <Form0> But I suppose I'll have to download new image every day I wanna do something?
[10:08] <Form0> Or can I just update?
[10:08] <virtuald> if you install you can just update
[10:09] <virtuald> or if you already have ubuntu installed you can update through update-manager
[10:09] <Form0> Well, I'm running alpha3 now I believe
[10:10] <virtuald> ok
[10:10] <davmor2> Form0: go into synaptic and install the ubuntu-qa-tools package this includes an app called dl-ubuntu-test-iso so if you only want to test ubuntu you can use the following command dl-ubuntu-test-iso --only ubuntu
[10:11] <Form0> aha, lets see
[10:11] <davmor2> this will download all the ubuntu iso's in 64bit and 32bit
[10:11] <Form0> I'm actually running kubuntu atm, does that have separate channel?
[10:11] <davmor2> Form0: no just specify --only kubuntu
[10:12] <Form0> ok
[10:12] <davmor2> Form0: if you don't add a --only command you get most of the iso's available
[10:13] <davmor2> Form0: also it uses rsync so it will only download the differences between the daily iso's
[10:13] <Form0> good, I was wondering how bandwidth heavy this is :)
[10:14] <davmor2> Form0: first run is second is light
[10:15] <virtuald> grub2 can boot iso files so no need to burn it
[10:15] <Form0> handy!
[10:15] <davmor2> because the first run needs to download entire iso's it's quite heavy, however once you have them it only downloads the daily diffs then
[10:16] <Form0> so, is there a bug database of somekind?
[10:17] <virtuald> yes, https://bugs.launchpad.net and booting isos in grub2 is described here http://mgerards.net/blog/?p=16
[10:17] <Form0> thanks a bunch
[10:23] <virtuald> i've never done it, looks like you have to find out the name of the kernel and initramfs image, mount -o loop kubuntu-something.iso /mnt and then look for vmlinuz and initrd in /mnt and /mnt/boot
[10:24] <Form0> yup, looks like have to experiment some
[10:27] <davmor2> Form0: fyi vm is the easiest way to test :)
[10:28] <Form0> hehe, ok of course
[10:49] <Form0> Omg, there's so many ISOs
[10:51] <davmor2> Form0: that's why I said if you only want to test kubuntu ues the --only kubuntu command :)
[10:52] <Form0> Good thing I don't have limit on data transfers