Comment 50 for bug 263555

All this is just crazy!

I'm testing Intrepid since Alpha 3, I have done testing on all Ubuntu releases at very early stage (Alpha 2) starting from 6.10. I'm not developer myself and the only way I can help improve Ubuntu is to test and submit bugs. I assume that I can loose some data and on regular basis I won't be very productive on the testing machine, I'm ok with that. BUT damage my hardware is something different, my machine costs ~ 2500 $ (ThinkPad T61p). I just upgraded the kernel this morning via synaptic, sometimes I don't even bother to check what's upgrading, because I ASSUME that Alphas can damage my data (which is backed up daily). When I submited a bug (duplicate of this one) this morning I saw the danger. I'm currently on Intrepid with the old kernel (2.6.27-3), and luckily my ethernet adapter is running well.

I'm sorry to say that but I think this will be the last time I'll run Ubuntu Alpha on my machine. I'm willing to help, but I have to be 100% sure that Ubuntu developers have very CLEAR policy on what will be pushed in the repositories for testing.

Regards,
Daniel