On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, you read that right. They haven't upgraded since FFX 1.5, and >> then they jump to the 3.0 beta *AFTER* 3.0 has been officially >> released. I'm glad to have a more modern browser, but the version they >> chose seems a bit weird... > > Interesting. I looked yesterday around 9am and found a couple of > hundred things to update. So I did, > I didn't notice that the Firefox banner says "3 Beta 5" until you mentioned > it.
Actually, I just realized that those "couple of hundred things to update" were CentOS updating itself to 5.2. As usual, it was about a month behind RHEL's release (May 21). And since Firefox 3.0 wasn't officially released until June 17, I suppose it makes sense that the beta came downstream the way it did. Not as unusual as it seemed at first, but I hope the final release of Firefox makes it into CentOS without too much more delay. For all the focus on stability, having beta software in the official repository still strikes me as a bit odd. -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith, English essayist and preacher (1771-1845) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
