On Thursday September 19 2002 04:14 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> I notice that MandrakeLinux-9.0rc2 went from
> the websites this morning, and seems to be replaced by,
>
> Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso
> Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-1.i586.iso
> Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-2.i586.iso
>
> this is another beta ?
> not the finished article ?
>
> John
The RC3 iso's are a cooker snapshot as of late last Fri (Sat. in
Europe). 'RC3' was reported on the install screen then. I don't know
why they took so long to put 'em up unless they at first weren't going
to. There's been some significant problems that appeared late, and a
chunk of updated rpms yesterday. So rather than going Final mid week
it'll probly be Fri. or Sat. with the announcement and release iso's
comin next Mon. At least that's my take of the discussion/activity on
the cooker list. 'Course it depends on whether the current updates fix
the problems.
BTW, IME, ftp.nluug.nl is fairly reliable, but often lags a day or
even two behind the primary mirror, sunsite. This is a good thing when
some rpms are gettin updated 4 or 5 times a day as was the case for
example with kdebase recently. Now that the updates have settled down
(ie, one a day per updated rpm), you might wanna switch to a more
current mirror.
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