[geeks] Why we don't use Beta software in production...

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>
>> Thankfully, 10.04 reboots really, really quickly.
>
> Yes. I built up a LAMP server and the update then upgrade dance failed  
> to render it useless - hurrah!
>
> I did a 'reboot' command, and it was staggeringly fast. I didn't think  
> it rebooted, to be honest...
>
> This was 32-bit server 10.04 Beta 1 server, same as before. Tests were  
> run on an i7-920 desktop w/gobs of RAM (though the VirtualBox VM had 1  
> Gig of RAM defined).

I'm running on an Atom with only 2 gigs of RAM and a rather old SATA-150
disk.