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

[Pat Gunn]

>  and second, i don't think the idea of "when it's ready" is as
>critical for betas as for official releases, for obvious reasons.
>no one expects perfection if it's a beta.  it's just that, for
>those of us who have been running the beta since we could get
>our greedy little mitts on it, it would be nice to get a newer
>version and start testing all over again.  after all, that's
>why we volunteer to be beta testers.

Well, those of us who arn't, like me, using it mostly because we
have a laptop thst does ACPI, meaning that it's basically
Severn or Windows
I've lived bleeding edge before, often for fairly long periods
of time, but I certainly won't claim there's any great
benevolence behind my using the thing.. :)

One thing that would be nice is if people would stop worrying so
much about when the next beta will come out. As has been pointed
out numerous times before:
1) We already get most of the updates through up2date. Beta2 probably
	won't be radically different from our current systems if we're
	subscribed to the updates package
2) Software releases take awhile, betas especially so. If you've beta
	tested anything else before, you'll know that all release dates,
	even if not specified as such, are speculative.
3) There happens to be a lot of important software that's near its next
	major release right now, and it makes sense for RedHat to do some
	delays in order to make sure that 9.1 will have the current stuff.
4) All this other stuff aside, complaining on this list isn't going to make
	it come out any fasterxi --, and all it does is irritate the rest
	of us. 

I personally expect, when beta2 comes out, that the only thing that'll
be different when I install it is I'll perhaps have a 2.6 kernel, and
sound/acpi will both be more sane on my system. That's it.

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