Paul Tansom wrote: > ** baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-20 02:06]: >> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 01:31 +0100, Leon Barker wrote: >>> I installed Feisty 4 days ago and have not received any updates >>> therefore the final version must have been released about 5 days ago. >>> >> Agreed, it looks like while there was an, 'official' launch, Fiesty has >> been complete for around a week or so. I upgraded about five or so days >> ago and not had any 'main' updates since.
Generally a release candidate gets generated and tested for a few days before it's actually decided it's good enough and is promoted as 'feisty final'. Ideally the release candidate and the actual release should be identical. > Yes, I'd expect the actual iso files, etc. to be ready a day or so > before release to give time to get everything in place. My main > confusion was that I'd read on the Ubuntu forum somewhere that there was > a last minute bug found and everyone was waiting for it to be fixed (I > have in mind a kernel bug related to ATA cards or something, That's right, it delayed the release candidate by a few days, well that and a wireless bug. > Anyway, I have the iso, so little lost in giving it a go tomorrow. It'll > be a clean install next to an existing Windows XP install (I have the > alternate CD). With any luck I'll have a usable Ubuntu system this time, > although the particular machine hasn't had too much luck with the live > CD so far - painfully slow even with 512M RAM on a 1.2GHz (real speed) > Athlon; I have an extra 256M in there now, but lack the right size DIMMs > to go any higher :( My 1.3ghz p3, 512mb laptop runs fine when it's actually installed, haven't tried the live cd, (I used the alternate) but I can imagine it being slow. Dean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
