How will it work?

One of the good things about this program is that you, as testers, will be able to know every time what to test, you will be able to check the new features before anybody else, and you will gain experience on the Ubuntu development process. Also, there will be a mailing list to share your experiences, bugs and to have direct feedback from the developers.

How can I participate?

Start by joining the Launchpad team and subscribe to the mailing list. Introduce yourself in the mailing list, tell us about you and what applications are you mostly interested in. Create an account in the tracker (if you already have an account at iso.qa.ubuntu.com it will work as well).

Forum thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1548733

Wiki page:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/DesktopTestingProgram

Internode ubuntu mirror:

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/releases-DVD/10.10/

Going to start testing a bit more intesely before the 10.10 beta, hopefully can use iso’s off the internode mirror, see no reason why not.

This is of course better than this:

http://ikt.id.au/?p=5

But not much better….

:/

I sure do ask a lot of them…

I’m playing an old avi file xvid mp4 + mp3 audio and every now and then you stutter.

This would not be an issue except for the fact I’m playing to listen to the audio, so now your half a second stutter every 2 minutes is more annoying than bits of orange in my bits free orange juice.

With a core2duo, 4gb of ram and an ssd drive which can boot in under 20 seconds I shouldn’t have simple issues like these, as such I will no longer rely on you as my primary media player.

Songbird is disappointing, not because it was some awesome media player, but because it’s one less player in a very empty playing field.

So who’s left:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_media_players

Mplayer
Totem

Totem is stuttering worse than vlc at certain parts of the video so I’m left with mplayer…

2. download conky fonts: here

3. extra conky scripts: here

4. be happy

unrar                     Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)

Contrib packages installed on ikt-netbook

flashplugin-installer     Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
nvidia-common             Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers

1 non-free packages, 0.1% of 1457 installed packages
2 contrib packages, 0.1% of 1457 installed packages.

You can support Earth Hour by:

1. Turning off your lights at 8.30PM on March 27

Yeah I probably won’t be doing this because the majority of the time my lights are already off, I don’t use much electricity or water so I don’t see why I should be participating in something that should already be on the minds of most people.