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4.0 and Testing..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prince Moran of Timarash)
Fri Oct 25 17:37:46 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:17:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Prince Moran of Timarash <mouring@sarah.djmix.com>
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I personally have not FTP/bought 4.0 since I own 3.0.3 and at this point
I've spent little time in Linux (When I have time..I should solve that
problem =).
But anyways.
Let me ask this question. If Red Hat could afford to sell beta
copies of their system (Minus all the commerical software of course)
for $15 (CD w/ online manuals..Same as what you would have if printed
in Postscript, or RTF, or Text)..JUST the Cdrom. And a promise is put
out that you can get $10 off the price of the offical release when it
occured. How many people would join the final "Beta" (Or in IBM terms..
"Gamma release")?
I know this assumes a lot...but I know Erik has talked about lack of
enought people testing it. This could be a solution.
This CD also could be used to help test things like single boot installs
on differnt platforms that Red Hat does not have in house (Example
is of multi-SCSI controllers that someone was commenting about for lack
of support).
I would suggest if Red Hat were to do this. That they go through a 2
month Gamma test. People register to buy the CDs a month before release,
and only XX (where XX is a limited number of CDs) are being sold. I know
IBM, and MS does this (they normally do it over 3 months with multiply
patch updates..but I see no need for that.)
Oh well.. Back to my old 3.0.3 system to play with web services and
multi-domain routing.
Ben Lindstrom
mouring@djmix.com
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