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30 Apr
2002
30 Apr
'02
08:28
After seeing how many patches, updates and bug fixes have already appeared for 8.0 and also how slow the updates download on the update server that it would be appropriate to give predistribution copies to some hard core users from the mailing lists to beta test each distribution before release to the general public.. This would significantly speed up the update servers due to less files downloaded and MORE IMPORTANTLY less bugs in releases would scare off less users that are new to linux.