Warren Togami wrote: >On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 00:02, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>there is always a certain frustration with investing time in beta-testing >>red hat, only to find upon the official release that there are really >>painfully obvious glitches in the system. >> >>consider this last cycle -- after *three* different betas, i installed >>psyche only to find that hwbrowser fails utterly. how did this get past >>the beta testing? >> >>i still like being part of the beta testing phase, but i've quietly >>noticed more people say they're going to skip any more x.0 releases >>and wait for the x.1. i don't think this is a good testimonial for >>the entire beta testing process. >> >>comments? >> >>rday >> > >I think many of us just never used the distribution in certain ways >while it was a "beta", so certain things slipped through the cracks. >Despite this, I feel that this past beta cycle created an overall much >better product than the last x.0. The only thing I'm really dismayed >about is the broken RPM, which is deadly serious problem. =( > >Warren > > > > One reason for that is the unsupported migration from beta to stable. If that upgrade path would be supported I'd test on my production systems once I would be sure no major hickups occur. Bernd
