|
|
发表于 2005-1-13 20:50:00
|
显示全部楼层
现在要申请成为测试人员才可以下到。而且硬件要求不低。发email到beta@netraverse.com看看自己人品好的话应该能下到：）
详情看下面的吧：
To our valued customers,
we are ready to begin recruiting Beta testers for our new Windows
2000-compatible product, Win4Lin Pro. The current target to begin this
program is Monday, January 24th, 2005. I would like to recruit testers
during the 2 full weeks leading up to this date. The initial Beta will
be fairly close to feature-complete, and you can expect it to evolve
very quickly toward final Beta status. Before I give details about the
program, let me quickly go over what your minimum system requirements
are in order to qualify for testing. These requirements are not the
same as the system requirements for the final product. They are just
what you will need to qualify for the Beta program.
CPU *minimum*:
Intel: Celeron, Pentium IV, or Xeon 1.5 GHz
* AMD: Athlon XP/MP 1600 or Duron 1.8GHz
* Opteron and Athlon 64 support is expected very soon.
If you have one of these chips, we'd be very interested
in you contacting us for testing.
Mobile/laptop: anything recent is best. We run the code here
on high performance laptops and it works great. Older laptops
may not be the best choice for now at least.
Memory *minimum*:
256MB; you will also want at least 256MB of swap configured
on Linux.
Hard Disk *minimum* (see also FREE Disk Space section below):
IDE: Ultra ATA100, 7200RPM or faster, less than 3 years old.
SCSI: Ultra 2 or Ultra 160, 7200RPM or faster
Mobile/laptop: unspecified - the more recent the better
Video *minimum*:
Any PCI or AGP card
1024x768, 16-bit color minimum
Any monitor that can handle that resolution
Remote display is okay, but the fidelity at first will be best
on local displays.
Linux *minimum*:
Any distribution less than 2-3 years old, with a 2.4 or 2.6
kernel. Note that recent versions SuSE, Fedora/RedHat,
and Mandrake will get the most attention from us in terms
of priority, but we will queue all bugs regardless. So you
can really qualify with any distribution you want provided
it has a 2.4 or newer kernel. Please note that 2.6 is highly
recommended, as Win4Lin Pro really takes advantage of some
of its new performance features that are not available on
2.4 kernels. Debian is perfectly fine, as this is now our
standard development platform and the product is guaranteed
to work well on it. We will even provide .debs as well as
RPMs. In fact, we may even *attempt* Slackware packages at
some point down the road, which I know will make some of
you happy ;) Gentoo, LinSpire, XandrOS, Novell Linux, etc.,
etc., etc. everyone should work fairly well at least, unless
it's *really* different. As I said above, you are more than
welcome to try others, but the SuSE, Fedora/RedHat, and
Mandrake will get the highest priority in terms of bug fixing.
And the best news of all?? *No more patched kernels!*
If you happen to be using one for the current version of
Win4Lin on the same machine, that's no problem. The two
versions can coexist without conflict. If however you
will setup a new computer or disk for this testing, you can
use your distribution's kernel unmodified provided it's
2.4 or 2.6.
FREE Disk Space *minimum*:
/home 5GB *free*
/var 2GB *free*
/opt anything above 20MB free is fine for now
if you are really adventurous, you can of course
symlink some of the installation directories
to other partitions ;)
Internet:
Dialup is fine for now as the packages are not too large.
However, as more and more GUIs get finalized, etc., the
packages will grow. I recommend at ISDN, T1, DSL, Cable,
etc. for best results.
Human User:
Almost everyone on this list has qualified skills for this
program. But just to be clear, here are some of the tasks
you will likely encounter during this program:
- Install/remove packages
- Monitor/kill processes
- Use standard Linux tools like grep, tar, etc.
- Filesystem tasks, such as symlinking, etc.
- Various other system administration tasks, such
as starting and stopping services, etc.
- Basic network tasks, such as ftp, etc.
Expect to be using the command-line quite a bit at
first. If you are not comfortable with shell
commands, this program is probably not for you.
Finally, you should never really have to reboot your
system, but at first you may want to test on a box
you are willing to reboot if needed. Remember, this
is after all pre-release software ;)
That completes the requirements to apply to this Beta program. Please
keep in mind that Win4Lin 2000 as a guest operating system is bound
mostly by disk, memory, and CPU. Your experience will always be better
if you have more speed or more capacity in these components. Also, I
can't emphasize enough how much faster the 2.6 kernel is for this kind
of thing.
If you believe you meet these qualifications, and are interested in
joining the Beta program, please send a note to beta@netraverse.com with
the following information:
- Reliable email address you check frequently
- Detailed system specifications - CPU type/speed,
disk type/speed, memory, Linux distribution and version
- List of applications you expect to run on Windows 2000 during
the Beta program.
- *Very brief/general* description of how you typically will
use the test computer, both inside Windows 2000 and on
Linux itself. Example: "Internet browsing, email, and Office"
Please DO NOT reply to the users list - send your requests to join this
program to: beta@netraverse.com
Finally, it will be my discretion as to how many and which testers we
will accept. I will consider every request very carefully, provided you
meet the qualifications. However, the size and scope of the program
will have to be limited at first in order for us to collect the best
data possible. I may ask for more testers after the program has started
if I feel it will benefit the product. Please don't take it personally
if I don't accept you initially - my decision will be based strictly on
the information you provide in the email to beta@netraverse.com.
I will try to acknowledge everyone's email to beta@netraverse.com as
promptly as possible. However I don't expect to have a final list of
participants until about 2 weeks from today.
I hope everyone had a very happy New Year. We are all very excited
about this new product, and would love to hear from you if you are
interested in testing and meet the requirements.
Thank you for your continued support,
Leo Reiter |
|
IP卡
狗仔卡
显身卡