[newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2
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? -iggy ps. with 9.0, i finally feel i can dump MS crap and be able to do all the things i need. OO, databases, spreadsheets, etc. save for my favorite games, i'd loose my broken_windows_98 partition faster than the release cycles for ms viruses! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2
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 ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
