Alpha, beta, ....

[Pastor JW]

On Saturday 03 May 2008 11:18:00 am Sandy Harris wrote:
> Is there a way to find out which pieces of 8.04 are
> in what state? Alpha, beta, whatever? Seems to
> me we need one.

I don't think there is one, how would one search?  I suppose a 0.* match would 
reveal less than released versions but then is the version number standard 
that well observed?  What is the difference between alpha numbers and beta 
ones?

> Firefox 3.x is a beta, but easily replaced with the
> current 2.x stable release, via Synaptic.

I for one was happy to see Firefox 3 as in 7.10, Firefox 2.0.0.14 and previous 
never would open most of the websites I frequent.  I had to rely on 
Konqueror.  I did not feel any need to reinstall the 2.x series of Firefox on 
my computer, ...and I have found no fault so far with Firefox 3.  

> People have reported problems with gnash. My
> add/remove app says my 8.04 has an Alpha of
> that, but . http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
> says a beta came out in March. If I installed
> gnash and id ugrades, would I get the beta? How
> would I know that, short of "try it and see"?.

There must be a different than gnash tool to play swf as I don't have gnash 
installed here.

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