On Tuesday September 17 2002 12:00 pm, Alastair Scott wrote:
> 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?
> 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.
> 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.
> Alastair
Alastair gave a fine answer, I just snipped to save repeating. I'd
only add that even if you do update daily any of the betas/RC until
you have Final, it's still a good idea to get the Final iso's or CD's
and do a fresh install. Two main reasons. As Alastair alluded to, and
one of the reasons fresh installs are always preferred, this will get
rid of any old cruft you don't need. The other reason is you'll have
backup for your system if for some reason a re-install becomes
neccessary. Like Alastair, I'll keep going, but waitin on KDE 3.1 ;)
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