Test Beds

[onlyonemac]

I've got 256 MB of RAM and an AMD Athlon XP processor. I've got an S3 ProSavage8 KM266 on-board video card which I believe is a bit of a fussy one for using advanced features like 3D acceleration and so on. I've got a floppy drive and plenty of floppies for testing; I can't offer hard disk driver testing at the moment and I've got a CD drive but I'm not supplying any CDs or accepting any postal offers - I can test disk reading and ejecting and audio playback for you, but not booting or burning. I've also got a SCSI card in there but no hard drives for testing (I've got one which I use with the card sometimes but it's in use for the foreseeable future). If you're interested then please PM me - I WON'T reply to testing requests in this thread because I'm never going to remember to check it.

[Dinso]

Lenovo G500
Intel core i3
SATA 500GB
Intel HD graphics 4000
USB and network booting
Dual boot\ Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04

[moondeck]

I have:

Uranium (my working machine)
Lenovo ThinkPad W500
8GB DDR3 RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 & Intel GMA 4500MD
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 2x2.8GHz 6M cache
120GB SSD drive
1920x1200 screen

Ununpentium (i dont use it too much, sometimes for gaming, still can test should someone need it)
Custom built
8GB DDR# RAM
nVidia GForce GTX560 SE
AMD FX-8350
MSI mobo, cant remember the model
HD screen
500 GB HDD (have more)

i also have a bagful of NICs should anyone need testing I have some RTL8139s but also some DLink cards and a Texas Instruments TLAN card and there is also a Matrox card in there (idk about the model, the specs arent open ).

I also have 2 net4501 boards from Soekris, 64MB RAM and a 486 on board. Serial console only.

[DeezRamChips]

the computers I can test on:

Gaming PC: (probably won't test on this one xD)
Intel Core i7 4790K
GTX 960
12Gb ram
500Gb SSD (Samsung EVO 850)
Screen: 1680 x 1050 x 32

Intel Atom PC:
Intel Atom (don't know model)
2 Gb ram
80Gb HDD
Screen: 1680 x 1050 x 32

Laptop Acer Aspire V3 571G:
Intel Core i3 2370m
8 Gb ram
500 SSD (Samsung EVO 850)

And lot's of other shitty old pc's

[moondeck]

Screen: 1680 x 1050 x 32

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nice screen m8

[Ycep]

Did anyone ever asked for testing down there?
If it didn't; Congrats! All active users with a floppy drive and floppy disk could test my operating system when I finish version 0.0.2.

[matt11235]

Does anybody have an NVMe SSD yet?

[Ycep]

zenzizenzicube: NVMe is made for servers and internet providers, not for workstation, home or office use.

[BrightLight]

Does anybody have an NVMe SSD yet?

I doubt you'll find anyone who does happen to have one. You can use QEMU, though. The syntax is not obvious but here it is:

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qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=disk.hdd,if=none,id=disk -device nvme,drive=disk,serial=nvme.txt

Notice that QEMU's BIOS (SeaBIOS) doesn't support booting from NVMe device. You'll need to use another drive to boot your OS, and test NVMe from within your OS.

[matt11235]

Does anybody have an NVMe SSD yet?

I doubt you'll find anyone who does happen to have one. You can use QEMU, though. The syntax is not obvious but here it is:

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qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=disk.hdd,if=none,id=disk -device nvme,drive=disk,serial=nvme.txt

Notice that QEMU's BIOS (SeaBIOS) doesn't support booting from NVMe device. You'll need to use another drive to boot your OS, and test NVMe from within your OS.

Thanks. Which versions support NVMe, or do I need to use one of the forks I see on GitHub?

[BrightLight]

Thanks. Which versions support NVMe, or do I need to use one of the forks I see on GitHub?

In my experience, the version available from Ubuntu's repository (Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04) supports it. On Windows, this port supports it.
Before trying to install anything new, just try it from your existing version. If it supports the NVMe device, you don't need to do anything.

[Roman]

zenzizenzicube: NVMe is made for servers and internet providers, not for workstation, home or office use.

Why do you think so? The latest Macs use NVMe, for instance. Other manufacturers ship NVMe laptops too.

[NunoLava1998]

"AMD 486"
"5 systems"
Oh well, here comes my destroyer system of the systems here which can barely run Minecraft.

GTX 950 GPU (expecting to upgrade, 2much4me).
8 GB RAM (yes a wopin 8 gb"!1!1!)
i3 4160 (so much, 2 entire cores SO MUCH)

[hgoel]

"AMD 486"
"5 systems"
Oh well, here comes my destroyer system of the systems here which can barely run Minecraft.

GTX 950 GPU (expecting to upgrade, 2much4me).
8 GB RAM (yes a wopin 8 gb"!1!1!)
i3 4160 (so much, 2 entire cores SO MUCH)

That isn't the point...

[NunoLava1998]

"AMD 486"
"5 systems"
Oh well, here comes my destroyer system of the systems here which can barely run Minecraft.

GTX 950 GPU (expecting to upgrade, 2much4me).
8 GB RAM (yes a wopin 8 gb"!1!1!)
i3 4160 (so much, 2 entire cores SO MUCH)

That isn't the point...

i know, just comparing to the systems here which aren't very good.