Thanks for the info Sridhar.  So which one would you recommend for someone 
who wants to keep up on the latest software developments?  If I want to be 
mostly compatible with the software I'm using now, would it be best to use 
the Freq's?  I ask because I had KDE 2.2 alpha, and now want the final 
version of KDE 2.2.  When I tried to upgrade it, I had several dependency 
errors, none of which could be satisfied, and I mucked with my system enough 
to kill it, so I had to reinstall LM 8.0 from scratch.

Thanks!

Terry

On Friday 21 September 2001 05:54, you wrote:

> Freqs are essentially Cooker snapshots optimised as an 'upgrade' to the
> most recent Mandrake release. The Mandrake tools and key packages like rpm
> and gcc are not changed in many major way, so as to remain compatible with
> the previous official release. They can get quite bleeding-edge (Freq3 had
> an alpha of KDE 2.2), and are not tested as rigorously as official
> releases.
>
> Betas are true Cooker snapshots, released when Cooker has developed to a
> stage where it can almost be packaged into an official release. The purpose
> of betas are to debug them so that the official release can be as
> error-free as possible. Since these are precursors to a new official
> release, major structural differnces can exist when compared to the
> previous release.

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