On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Kerry Mayes wrote:
but why would you do this 1 day before the actual release?
* To avoid the thundering herd...
* To give Ubuntu feedback, and hence a chance to fix, if their Release
Candidate eats people's lunch.
* The dpkg architecture means 99% of the packages of the pre-release
you install will be exactly the ones in the released version, and
update-manager will in a gentile manner, cough the rest of them on
to your disk a day or so later.
2008/4/23 John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
They are slowly getting this release thing down pat.
I now have upgrade two boxes from Gutsy Gibbon to Ubuntu Hardy heron 8.04
pre-release...
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