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[David Mohammed <davidmohammed@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah - the QA Tracker has the wrong download information.  It should be

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/artful/daily-live/current/


thanks

David (project lead)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Mohammed <davidmohammed@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 6 January 2018 at 11:42
Subject: Testing 17.10 Ubuntu Budgie Respin
To: budgie-remix-bug-busters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


All,

  this is a call-out for everyone to test the new 17.10 UB ISO's that
have been respun to fix the critical issue where the BIOS was being
corrupted on some computers

 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147


So these ISOs contain the fix - great news!

Now we need to double check that both the 64bit and 32bit ISOs still
install correctly.


All the test cases are found on the QA ISO tracker

 - http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/385/builds

IMPORTANTLY - all results should be added to the ISO Tracker otherwise
I will not know if you have managed to test the ISOs

A step by step guide on how to use the ISO tracker is here:

 - https://www.tsimonq2.net/blog/2016/04/27/

Or a video is also available

 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJLj0eG7Gjw

The time-frame as always is tight - we need to release at the same
time as Ubuntu and other flavours on Thursday Jan 11 - so all results
need to be available by early wednesday.

>From Steve Langasek - Ubuntu
"Note that these images are being prepared in advance of the release of fixes
for Spectre and Meltdown.  As a rule, we do not re-release install media for
security bugs, even those as severe as this; Ubuntu 17.10 install media
without the Meltdown fix will be in the same category as Ubuntu 14.04.5 and
Ubuntu 16.04.3 install media which also do not include the fix.  Also, it is
beneficial to have Ubuntu 17.10 images available again ASAP in the face of
the impending 17.04 EOL."

thanks

David (project lead)