Warly, The beta cycles are too fast for people limited to V90 (56KB) downloads. beta 3 came before beta2 could complete download.
Now beta 4 or rc1 is to come before download of beta 3 can possibly be completed! I don't yet have the first beta 3 CD image down (57%). So much for any possibility of beta testing. At, say, an optimistic 4MB/sec overall effective download rate, one 700MB CD takes 50 or 60 hours,ie 2.1 days+ (on a 24x7 assumption). 3 CDs would therefore take nearly a week. Then testing and reporting time must be added. Not all of use have broadband access, and even if we do, the cable vendor's acceptable use policy does not permit such large downloads (here you get your account summarily closed with no reopening possibity. Only an unlimited downloads V90 ISP can make it possible. Even then the maximum session time is 5 hours, although luckily mine does not enforce this overnight. So beta releases cannot be closer than 4 weeks apart, better say 6 in practice. Unfortunately, it must be so <g> if you want any beta testing done. This is a real and pressing problem, and again, Mandrake is shooting itself in the foot. Ron. Warly wrote: > Cooker is entered in its first frozen state. > ... > Expect a beta 4 or rc 1 by the end of this week or beginning of next week, > then a new rc in the beginning of september. > > Deep freeze (not more upload, only very critical bugs), after that. > > Final arround the 13th. > > All this may change a little bit. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/
