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Re: etch images



Kamaraju,

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:33 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:57, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> > Hi list!
> >
> > what is the difference between the images of etch in the links
> > (10-Nov-2006)
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/
> > and (weekly snapshot)
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/
> 
> rc1 stands for release candidate 1. Weekly snapshots are just that - snapshots 
> taken every week or so.
> 
> Comparatively, rc1 is a bit old but many bugs would have been solved. weekly 
> snapshots contain new code which might also come with new unknown bugs...

:)

> Start out with rc1. If that does not work out (say touchpad does not respond 
> etc.,) then try the weekly snapshot or daily snapshots. For most hardware, 
> rc1 will work.

thank you very much for the answer,

Marcelo



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Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
chiappa@uerj.br



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