Ubuntu’s next Long Term Support release, 12.04 “Precise Pangolin”, is due at the end of April and it’s looking really good!
To make it simple to help with beta testing, we’re making daily builds of Precise direct to Brightbox Cloud Server images.
Use the --show-all flag with brightbox-images to list all public
images to show the daily builds. You can use grep to search the
list:
$ brightbox-images list --show-all | grep Precise
id owner type created_on status size name
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img-iqrpk acc-tqs4c upload 2012-03-20 public 1025 Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS server (i686)
img-ca4j1 acc-tqs4c upload 2012-03-20 public 1025 Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS server (x86_64)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Then you can use that image1 to build the server:
$ brightbox-servers create -n "precise testing" img-ca4j1
Creating a nano (typ-4nssg) server with image Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS server (img-ca4j1)
id status type zone created_on image_id cloud_ip_ids name
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srv-5pr0g creating nano gb1-a 2012-03-20 img-ca4j1 precise testing
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you have IPv6 you can ssh straight in, otherwise you’ll need to map a Cloud IP:
$ ssh ubuntu@ipv6.srv-5pr0g.gb1.brightbox.com
Welcome to Ubuntu precise (development branch) (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-19-virtual x86_64)If you want to test out the desktop stuff, install the ubuntu-desktop package:
ubuntu@srv-5pr0g:~$ sudo apt-get install -qy ubuntu-desktopThen set a password for the ubuntu user and reboot:
ubuntu@srv-5pr0g:~$ sudo passwd ubuntu
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
ubuntu@srv-5pr0g:~$ sudo rebootThen you can access the Brightbox graphical console in your browser and start playing!
$ brightbox-servers activate_console srv-5pr0g
Activating console for server srv-5pr0g
url token expires
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https://srv-5pr0g.console.gb1.brightbox.com/?password=4jfff71n 4jfff71n 2012-03-20T11:30:56Z
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Get reporting those bugs and make the next LTS release the best one yet!
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These images belong to account acc-tqs4c, which is one of our daily builder accounts. There are some other regularly built test images available from that account too. ↩