On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 15:26, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote: > >>> > >>>[...] > >>> > >>> > >>>>As an aside, RH 9 to be called 'Shrike', (curiously skipping 8.1 due to > >>>>binary incompatibility issues) will be available on March 31 to paid RHN > >>>>subscribers. It will be available a week later to all folks. > >>> > >>> > >>>Martyn Plummer has already mentioned this and that he will be testing it > >>>before release. > >> > >>OK...I must have missed that post. Apologies. > > > > > > It was to R-core, so there was no way for you to know. > > > > > >>I will be downloading the RH 9 ISO's early as a paid RHN subscriber, so > >>if there is anything that I can do to help Martyn in validating or > >>confirming any issues, let me know. I have cc'd Martyn on this post. > > > > > > Thanks for the offer: I am sure Martyn will appreciate it. Meanwhile I am > > replacing a RH7.2 machine with an RH8.0 one. > > > > Brian > > > > Prof. Ripley, > > Thanks for the clarification. > > FWIW, RH 8.0 has been very stable on my Dell i8200 laptop, upon which I > run RH 8.0 dual-booted using GRUB with WinXP Pro. > > It will be interesting to see the improvements in RH 9, especially any > performance enhancements and X related updates including, as I > understand, better AA font support, which will be helpful on the UXGA > LCD panel. > > Martyn, let me know if I can be of help.
Many thanks for your help Marc. You just have to run "make check" on the latest beta on RH 9.0 and let us know what happens. A clean install, rather than an upgrade is the best testing environment since an upgrade may leave RPMS from previous installations lying around, but you are not obliged to do this. I don't expect any problems this time since the major change relates to threading and, as Brian has already pointed out, R doesn't use threads. By the way, I shall continue to provide R RPMS for RH 7.x for those people who follow the rule of never upgrading to an x.0 release. Martyn ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
