On July 26, 2004 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote:
> > On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote:
> > > On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official.
> > > >
> > > > There's now 10.1 beta.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the information.
> > >
> > > I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't
> > > realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta
> >
> > The Community label is for public betas of Mandrake releases. �We all get
> > to be guinea pigs before the rest of the world gets a crack at the
> > official relase.
>
> That's the cynical view.  It is supposed to be the stabilization release
> that will be used to cut the next official release, and then updates go
> directly into the dist tree, unlike official, which sees all updates in the
> updates directory
>
> cooker \
>         \ Community \---------------
>                      \ Official ----
>
> > In any event the "new" Community will be 10.1 which is still in alpha
> > stage.

Actually I wasn't trying to be cyncial at all. :-)

To me a public/late beta is exactly what we're getting with the Community 
Edition.  And I'm not saying that it's a bad thing rather it's a good thing.  
It's a test on a much larger scale than Mandrake would otherwise be able to 
do and with some of the issues found in 10CE which were resolved by 10OE I'd 
say it's a very good plan.  One that I'm happy to be part of.

Now if we could just do something about bittorrent. :-)

ttfn

John
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