1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,200 Hello, and welcome to The Linux Lemming. 2 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,040 I'm your host, Rostek Halibara. 3 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:29,280 This is Episode 4, and I've decided to title this one Helping the Hippo. 4 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:37,360 So this is Ubuntu 20.04 testing week, which has been crossing the feeds and all the Linux 5 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:42,880 podcasts out there and news areas and different things like that, so I figured this would 6 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:50,160 be a great opportunity to put the documentation to the test and also to help out a project. 7 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:56,320 So this is a great opportunity, and I've never participated in an event like this before, 8 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,320 so I'm really grateful that something like this exists. 9 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,920 Alan Pope recently made a forum post about the event that also includes documentation 10 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:12,200 for new testers and several different videos that you can watch to actually see him conduct 11 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,120 a test in real time. 12 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:21,240 It's about an hour investment or so to read through the documentation and watch a video 13 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,560 in its entirety. 14 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:28,320 The video that I watched was about 25 to 30 minutes long, and I did skip through a little 15 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:34,520 bit of it, but it is helpful to have that written documentation and a visual representation 16 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:35,760 as well. 17 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:42,160 So after reading through and watching the videos, you have to log in to an Ubuntu account, which 18 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:49,840 I've had since 2008 or something like that, so I was able to log in to my account and 19 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,080 I got started. 20 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,880 When you do get started with the testing week, you have a lot of different options, and depending 21 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:01,960 on the test, some of them want you to do bare metal installs and different things like that. 22 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,720 I don't have any spare hardware at the moment, so I decided that I would try to do all of 23 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,400 my testing in VirtualBox. 24 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:17,840 And I really haven't used VirtualBox all that much, but the process was pretty straightforward. 25 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,680 So I downloaded the ISOs that I wanted to test. 26 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:29,680 I chose to do Kabuntu because that's what I run on a daily basis, and also Kylan. 27 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:37,200 I've never really used Kylan at all before, but looking at both of those flavors, I noticed 28 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,120 they still had tests that needed to be done in the live environment. 29 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,240 So I figured that would be a good thing to do. 30 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:51,320 So after installing VirtualBox, you have to click on to create a new virtual environment. 31 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,640 And when you go to set that up, you want to make sure that you change your settings to 32 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:58,720 Linux and an Ubuntu flavor. 33 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,720 So I'm doing 64-bit. 34 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:06,520 I don't even know if these ones support 32, but there you have it. 35 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,760 I think the default when you go into VirtualBox is to use a Windows system. 36 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,880 So just make sure you modify that as needed. 37 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,880 The next step is allocating memory for that VirtualBox. 38 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:24,960 I have 32 gigabytes of memory on this laptop, so I gave it 8 gigabytes of memory. 39 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:29,400 So I didn't want to experience any issues. 40 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,840 I didn't have to provide any disk space. 41 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,600 So after you do the memory, it's going to ask if you want to create a virtual hard disk. 42 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,680 And I figured since I'm not going to be living in this thing, I'm just testing the live environment 43 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,240 I don't need a virtual hard disk at all. 44 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,960 And that is an option. 45 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,560 And after you click that, it's going to ask you, are you sure? 46 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,080 You'll only be able to run a live environment, and that's exactly what I want to do. 47 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,560 So no problems there. 48 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,720 So after you go through that, your VirtualBox will be created, but you still have to add 49 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,880 the ISO and tell it to boot from that. 50 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,800 So you've got to click on the settings for the virtual environment that you just created. 51 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:16,200 Then you have to go to the controller IDE and tell it that you want it to be an optical 52 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,560 drive. 53 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:22,680 And then after that, you add the ISO from wherever it lives on your computer. 54 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,680 And in mine, it was just in my downloads folder. 55 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:32,520 After you've mounted that ISO, you need to click on that ISO image. 56 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:37,960 And then right below the optical drive, there's an option to tell it that this is a live CD 57 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,760 or DVD. 58 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,280 You want to make sure you click that because if you don't, it won't boot properly. 59 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:51,400 So after that's all been set up, it's time to start up that virtual environment and 60 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:57,560 then work through the checklist that they have in their ISO tracker and submit any bugs. 61 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,160 So I started with Kabuntu. 62 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:05,080 And as soon as I booted that up, reading through their checklist, they said that the language 63 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,240 menu should be in the left column. 64 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:16,800 And when I did it, it was above where it says install or try the live environment. 65 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,200 So that was kind of the first discrepancy that I came across. 66 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,480 And that seemed to be the only one I came across in Kabuntu. 67 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,000 It functioned appropriately. 68 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,600 All the apps worked just fine. 69 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:28,600 There was no screen tearing. 70 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,600 It was great. 71 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,160 It was like I was using it on bare metal. 72 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,800 So I just submitted that one small little thing that I saw and maybe it's a big deal. 73 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,160 Maybe it's not, but it's on record there now. 74 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,880 So after going with Kabuntu, I booted up Kylan. 75 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:51,120 And there were a lot of issues with that one. 76 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,480 One thing that stood out to me is when I booted up Kabuntu, there was no startup noise or 77 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:57,960 anything like that. 78 00:05:57,960 --> 00:05:59,640 But there was with Kylan. 79 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,560 So maybe I need to go back and check sound in Kabuntu. 80 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:08,480 But Kylan had a little startup ding and everything. 81 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,200 But as I was moving my cursor around, it was tearing on the screen. 82 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:19,400 And every time I opened an app and clicked, these white boxes would pop up and kind of 83 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,280 obscure the view and everything. 84 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:28,600 So it seemed like Kylan was not as polished in a virtual environment as Kabuntu was. 85 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:35,040 So I submitted two bugs for Kylan and we'll see where that takes it. 86 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,680 I'm not quite sure. 87 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,840 I maybe skipped over that part in the video about what happens after you submit a bug. 88 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:46,920 But I imagine it needs to be reviewed or verified by other users before they treat it as an 89 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,600 actual issue. 90 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:55,320 So I'll just keep my eyes on that ISO tracker and see if anything changes or updates. 91 00:06:55,320 --> 00:07:00,920 And hopefully I'll find some more time to do some more testing in a live environment. 92 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,200 Looking at like Ubuntu proper and things like that, it seemed like a lot of the tests had 93 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,160 already been done. 94 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,120 But I'll just keep looking down that list and see if there are other ways that I can 95 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,120 contribute. 96 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,400 So that's all I have for testing week. 97 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,480 Just a little update on the open web analytics. 98 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,640 I still haven't gotten that to play nicely with the swag container. 99 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:31,160 I found an ARM64 image for Shinet that somebody had made on their own and I think it was like 100 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,680 a year or two old. 101 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,600 So that might be part of the problem as well. 102 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,440 I've been really slow at getting back to the main developer and updating him on my process 103 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,000 and I feel pretty bad about that. 104 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:50,520 So I just got to find time to execute on that conversation that we were having. 105 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,240 But that's all we have for the Linux Lemming this week. 106 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:23,080 I'll see you next time.