On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:44 AM, neal hogan <n...@lambdaserver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:41:12PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> The 4.6 release will be postponed to Nov 1.
>>
>> There have had serious CD production problems.  Because everything in
>> CD manufacturing is so ridiculously outsourced, all I know is that the
>> plant which was used this time (Q Media services Corp in Vancouver)
>> have made about 6 faulty CD pressings in a row.  I will stop saying
>> more, otherwise this will quickly turn into a rant.
>>
>> We intended to release on Oct 1 because the tree was frozen earlier
>> (as jj has described on undeadly.org, this was so that the f2k9
>> hackathon could occur in August, with an unlocked source).
>>
>> But we will go back to the standard Nov 1 schedule.  Sorry about
>> the delay.
>>
>> Thank you very much for those of you who have pre-ordered.
>>
>
> Well . . . more time for pre-orders!
>
>

+1

More time for me to get money to buy a preorder slot. :-)

It sucks that the chain of operation's hit a weak link, but that's how
the cookie crumbles.

--
Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict
- Oh, why does everything I whip leave me?

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