[ANN] OSUnix and OSLinuxUbuntu on new UFFI

> Sebastian wrote:
>> I don't want to spoil the great news, but actually the most recent
>> changes break Pharo 5.0 with SpurVM on Windows 8.
>> ...
>>
>> I tried several older snapshots of the VM and the Pharo images listed in
>> the PharoLauncher but none work.
> Seriously you should rethink your way of COMMUNICATION:
>
>   1. This thread here is about a specific UNIX package and you tell us about a
>      general Pharo problem you seem to have on a completely different platform: WINDOWS.
>        => ????
>
>   2. You "hijack" this thread instead of opening a separate one specific
>      to the problem and asking if others might have the same issue.
>        => ????
>      
>   3. You "give a general warning" to others already to "keep their images"?
>      No details on what modification could possibly harm the image.
>        => ????
>
>   4. You talk about a broken Pharo 5 - but do not tell us what/where it is broken.
>      Did the image not come up, is there a problem in a tool or when calling
>      something/using UFFI.
>        => ????
>
>   5. You talk about "recent changes" without telling us when it started or at
>      a minimum with which image version you face the problem. When it worked
>      before then one can easily use Launcher to incrementally download and check
>      several images to find out which change broke something.
>        => ????
>
>   6. You say you cant build a new image since a few days without giving any
>      information what packages you load or how you build your custom images.
>        => ????
>
>   7. You said that you used several combination of VM and images but
>      do not tell us which one you used/expected to work.
>        => ????
>
> Sorry - do you really think this is a good way to report a problem?
> How do you expect someone to invest his sparse spare time to help you?
> Maybe it is much easier to "just lament" instead of "being supportive".
>
> As an info: I also use Pharo 5 (even latest images up to Pharo 5 #50586) on Windows
> with Spur since 2 months. Found smaller issues that I reported, most of them are
> already adressed because I was able to give a clear picture of what the problem was.
>  
> And yes - times are a little bit shaky because of Spur and UFFI - but this
> was already announced/warned before and situation has improved a lot with
> latest updates.
>
> Please do us all a favour and open a new thread or much better a bug
> report with exact details to reproduce if you have any finding.
>
> Before that check your setup: for SpurVM you should try:
>    http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur32/win/stable-20151214.zip (which is the Spur build from December)
>    http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur32/win/PharoVM-Spur32-win-latest.zip (which is the latest CI built)
> with the highest image build number: http://files.pharo.org/image/50/
>
> For non-spur images (Pharo 4.0 and Pharo 5.0 up 50496 update) you need the old
> non-spur VM: http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/win/
>
> If you use Launcher check that you use the latest green build from https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/Launcher
> and that spur and non-spur Vm is correctly configured in the Pharo launcher settings.
>
> Thanks
> Torsten
>
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