John Summerfield wrote: > Andrew Farris wrote: >> greg wrote: >>> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 20:56 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: >>>> I downloaded the DVD iso of Fedora 9 Alpha some time ago. Is it still >>>> worth installing and then updating, or should I wait for a "beta" >>>> release...or will updating effectively give me the beta? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Bob Cochran >>>> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA >>>> >>> i'd wait for the beta if not the Release candidate .. its pretty close >>> to the finish of the Alpha anyway, an things will more than likely >>> change in the Beta, ..you can update to the beta once you install the >>> Alpha but its prefered to make a clean install, that way no traces of >>> Bugs from the alpha is left behind >> >> And there are quite a few of them. I'd suggest waiting for Beta as >> well. Your other choice would be to do a network install, which your >> Alpha disk could let you do, but I would not just install the >> packages from the Alpha disk.. do the network install or wait. >> > I'll add my opinion. f9a is barely useable for me, with will-known > problems. nobody needs more reports of the same problems. > > If you want to track brokenware, await the next ISOs, install and > track rawhide. If you install now you may find your first update is > well over 500 Mbytes. I'm trying to be conservative and > non-controversial here, I want to say it will be well over 500 Mbytes;-) > Thanks everyone for your feedback. I guess I'll wait for the beta release. March 20 or so...that's not long. Bob -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
