On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Chuck R. Anderson wrote: > I don't see the need for a full iso set to be generated that often. > Test releases are just "stable" points in the rawhide tree that > happen about once a month. I think this is often enough for full > iso sets. it's *not* often enough if you're talking about official test releases, for which RH is looking for as much feedback as they can get, and there's a serious installation flaw that prevents a significant number of people from even getting it onto their systems. and, typically, these installation problems are identified within about a day of availability and are fixed almost immediately, so there's no reason not to slap up a fixed ISO. i realize this has no significance in the cosmic scheme of things but i downloaded fc4t1 within hours of its availability, made it accessible via NFS and went to put it on a test machine. as many people noticed, fc4t1 had a bug that affected NFS installs. i could have screwed around, burned CDs, checked bugzilla, looked for a workaround ... something. but i have a lot to do so i just punted and let it go. i don't have time to figure out why *any* version of FC -- test or otherwise -- can't be installed normally. so i scrapped it. now here comes fc4t2. once again, i'll be all over that, downloading as soon as i can. and if it fails to install again, i'll forget that one, too. i'm more than happy to put up with the inevitable bugs that can be handled via regular updates. but i'm not going to waste my time with a release that won't even install properly. that sort of thing is unacceptable, even in an initial test release. rday