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Old 23-Jun-2009, 17:33
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Default Re: Open source versioning conventions

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Originally Posted by Knurpht View Post
Quite interesting matter this is, aspecially the alpha / beta issue. Years ago an alpha release would just give you an idea of what something was going to be. In beta's you could find some functionality, but still glitches, not only in the GUI.

Today I'm running Factory which is a whole system in beta state and it is rock stable already
I too am running beta software, testing out KDE 4.3 beta 2.
Its rock solid so far and plasma has only crashed on me once, while KDE 4.2.4 plasma crashed on me numerous times.
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