Solus 4.4 OpenCollective Testing ISOs Now Out!

werner1910

Solus 4.4 Harmony!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

werner1910

EbonJaeger

WetGeek Sorry, it's been a busy weekend. My understanding is there may be issues sending to or receiving emails at your personal domain, which is what Open Collective is tied to, correct? If so, yeah, a secondary or backup email address to send to would be helpful.

I think you may be able to set a second email for Open Collective; worth looking in to. I don't deal with that part of the operation myself, so I'm not entirely sure what we can see on our end or how resending might work, but I can follow up with people tomorrow and find out.

WetGeek

EbonJaeger I can follow up with people tomorrow and find out.

Thanks for your help with this. I have no idea why such a problem exists with OpenCollective, but I'll connect with it and see if I can find out anything more. When I tried to set up Matrix, I had to use wetgeek at vivaldi.net for an email address, and that worked fine. Perhaps I can find some way for OpenCollective to use that, too.

EbonJaeger

WetGeek Perhaps I can find some way for OpenCollective to use that, too.

No problem! And hopefully; that sounds like the easiest solution.

WetGeek

EbonJaeger nd hopefully; that sounds like the easiest solution.

I wish. This is as far as I've gotten so far. Still waiting for the magic link.

JoshStrobl

WetGeek I checked the OpenCollective CSV export and identified that the issue is the result of duplicate entries between one-time donations and recurring tiered ones, so SendGrid processes the first one (donation) but ignores the second as a duplicate. I'll send you a "test" email from SendGrid for the Crew tier and dig around for the program I wrote a few years back that cleans up and corrects the CSV, worst case is I rewrite it 😃

WetGeek

JoshStrobl I'll send you a "test" email from SendGrid for the Crew tier

Yes, it has arrived without any drama. The additional one-time contribution was for a reason I can no longer remember. I'll get started making those VMs today. Thanks for your help with this.

WetGeek

@JoshStrobl : I have just one other question. We're used to the install-once-update-forever feature of Solus, and that's one of my favorites. But will that apply to the testing .ISOs as well? In other words, will VMs created using these morph into finished release versions as they're updated? Or will I need to download the release .ISOs when they are available and build new VMs using those?

If these will be long-term VMs, I'll spend more time on initial configuration, etc. If they'll be discarded and new VMs built using the release .ISOs, I'll make these functional, but not go overboard.

ermo

WetGeek

The more you test without finding issues, the higher the probability that the OC backer pre-release ISOs that are currently up will be indistinguishable from the proper release ISOs.

D-Smithee

Nemo in Budgie. Oh, thank God.

JoshStrobl

D-Smithee Yea nice shipping with a proper file manager again right?

seanragout

JoshStrobl Hey Josh, just out of curiosity what changed your mind about finally using Nemo over Nautilus ?
I seem to remember back in the day that you were somewhat opposed to adopting any other file manager for Budgie, even going as far as to suggest that you might develop one yourself from scratch

BTW absolutely thrilled that you changed your mind

JoshStrobl

seanragout Hey Josh, just out of curiosity what changed your mind about finally using Nemo over Nautilus ?

Nautilus has continued to degrade over time. I've been used Nemo since Jan of last year or so (first trying Caja) and I ship it in Fedora Budgie Spin as well as the upcoming Fedora Onyx.

BTW absolutely thrilled that you changed your mind

To be fair, most of the operating systems that ship Budgie Desktop have standardized on Nemo. Ubuntu Budgie has been shipping it for ages, as an example, and we've generally been recommending it in Buddies of Budgie when folks want to start packaging Budgie Desktop for their favorite OS.

10leej

I'm patently waiting for access to ISO's signed up on open collective yesterday after talking with Ermo last night in the matrix dev channel.

EbonJaeger

Attention Backers!

The MATE testing ISO has been updated this evening to fix issues with keyboard layouts:

Keyboard layout selected during install was not used for login greeter after reboot.
Keyboard layout would not be remembered between sessions.

Thank you for your support!

10leej

All isos test boot and install fine on Intel Arc A770, I have a A380 as well but it's the same driver stack so I'm 99% sure it should work.

Yuumeikyou

Hello, I'm sure this question has been asked many a times but for newer backers such as myself on open collective of the release tester tier, will we receive an email about where to find the testing iso's after a bit of time after becoming a contributor or are they sent out in batches?

Mod note: Sorted this out with the user on Matrix. See Tracey's reply about how this will work for future ISOs

Delation

Can't wait until the stable release!

delta

Please, can someone send me a link to the iso, I want to try it

WetGeek

delta Please, can someone send me a link to the iso, I want to try it

If you're a Solus contributor on Open Collective, you should already have it. If not, you'll probably be able to download a copy in a few days. The new .ISO files should be published very soon.

But if you've been updating your Solus when upgrades are available, you've already been on version 4.4 for quite a while now. The new .ISO files will be mostly of use to folks with new bleeding-edge equipment who can't install Solus using the 4.3 .ISO files.