On 10/04/2014 12:33 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > > To ease portability testing of GNU software, > I've created a collection of virtual-machines of POSIX-compatible, > Free-Software operating systems. > These are pre-configured with programs required for building autotools-based > projects. > > If anyone is interested in using them, downloads and more information are > available here: > http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/ > > I've sent few reports based on these VMs to various mailing lists > (and except the MINIX case, I hope the signal-to-noise ratio was good enough > to be considered useful). > > OSes include: > gNewSense, Trisquel, > Debian, Ubuntu (only the free repositories), > CentOS, OpenSUSE, > FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, > GNU Hurd, DilOS (OpenSolaris-like), MINIX. > Downloads here: > http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/downloads/ > > In this first version, testing is done manually. > In future versions, I hope to automate large parts of it (that is - given a > tarball, run "configure + make + make check" on all VMs). Integration with > other infrastructures (like libvirt) is also a goal. > > I will try to test future tarballs sent to platform-testers. > > Comments and suggestions are welcomed, > (Please reply to pretest-us...@nongnu.org )
Excellent stuff. I'll definitely try these out. BTW sizes of the download images would be useful to present. thanks, Pádraig.
