Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!

[Philip Rhoades]

Andre,


> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:37:54 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Andre Robatino<robatino at fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
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> Philip Rhoades<phil<at>  pricom.com.au>  writes:
>
>> Fedora-14-Beta-i686-Live-XFCE.iso has the same cksum as Beta RC3?
>
> Beta is identical to Beta RC3. In general, for each of Alpha, Beta, and Final,
> one of the corresponding release candidates is chosen (usually, but not
> necessarily, the last one). You can verify this by comparing the unsigned
> checksum files for Beta RC3 with the corresponding signed ones for Beta. The
> only difference is the signature.


Isn't that an odd thing to do?  I would have thought that the point of 
having different pre-final release versions, including release 
candidates, is to progressively improve the version ie reduce bugs - as 
it gets closer to a final release?

Thanks for the info though . .

Phil.
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