On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:21, iggy wrote: > hi, all! > > does anyboby know if 9.0 rc 2 will be updatable (is that a real word?) to 9.0 > final version or i'll have to download 9.0 when it becomes available?
Here's the (complex) answer which, I believe, is correct :) If you subscribe to cooker (as per emails passim here) and keep updating your machine regularly up until the release date (possibly this Thursday) you'll have the same packages as 9.0 minus, possibly, some artwork or other similarly inconsequential features. No official flag will pop up saying 'you now have 9.0', though. Then, if you keep going with those cooker updates, the machine will continue to be updated with 'unstable' packages which lie between 9.0 and, presumably, an eventual 9.1 beta 1. Several of the Mandrakesoft employees have said that they'll be doing things 'post 9.0' which need to be done but were not urgent enough to go in 9.0. I'll be looking for Gnome 2.0.2, for example, which has been released just too late to go into 9.0. I'm not sure whether to go this route, or reformat the machine _completely_, download the ISOs and write the CDs, then install 9.0 from scratch and only do 'stable' Mandrake updates as they come along, not 'unstable' cooker updates. After all, rather a lot of wrong turns must've accumulated on my hard disk given that this machine has had 8.2 plus 4 betas and 2 Release Candidates installed for 9.0; probably better to go back to a clean system. On the other hand, _contributing_ to the distribution, in a modest way by turning up all sorts of user interface problems and seeing them solved on the spot (try that with Microsoft or Apple), has nurtured a fine feeling in my breast :) Alastair
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