no ... *really* ... any ETA for updated beta?

[Gerald Henriksen]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:46:40 -0400, you wrote:

>Folks,
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gerald Henriksen" <ghenriks at rogers.com>
>> One of the issues delaying beta 2 is the move to include Gnome 2.4,
>> with the last of the Gnome 2.4 beta packages only just now finally be
>> released into the severn update channel I believe.
>
>Unlike what some have suggested, the quality of a released beta is not trivial.
>
>There's an expectation that a later beta of a product will be in "better shape." Unfortunately, that's not fair, given the desire to
>incorporate packages such as the newest GNOME. So Red Hat has additional work to do.

It is also worth pointing out that many of the things that will make
it into the next beta are currently available for download in the
up2date channel that was created this week.

For those who have been downloading these updates the beta testing has
continued, with new bugs being found and reported and fixed.