On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Mark Tinka wrote:
> having used SuSE all my geek-life, they will always
> add "-beta" to any package still under development,
> and will continue to include the current stable
> package, in this case, Squid 2.5...
>
> back with SuSE 7.0, Squid-2.4 was "-beta", while 2.3
> was available as a stable..
>
> customer is duly warned :).
I only wish they would have made that warning a lot clearer. There is many
users who do not fully grasp that the fact that something is labelled beta
means that it is not suitable production use or may in fact be very
unreliable and possibly insecure.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Aug 27 2004 - 03:00:57 MDT
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