Re: The Death of 10.8?

From	Sandman <mr@sandman.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: The Death of 10.8?
Date	2013-10-28 15:54 +0000
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In article <l4m05v$qvd$1@dont-email.me>, Michelle Steiner <email@michelle> wrote:

> > "beta state"? Someone is confused about a word definition here...
> 
>  Some people believe that any n.0 release is really a final beta, and 
>  that the real product doesn't come until the n.1 release, or maybe the 
>  n.0.1 release.

What people "believe" is of no importance here. The author of the software 
gets to decide whether or not is a beta version or not. The user of the 
software does not get to decide that.

Some software developers may prematurely call something the final version 
and not beta, and the users may feel that the final version is of expected 
"beta-quality", but that doesn't make it a beta.

As for OSX, pre-release versions are called "developer preview" ("DP"), and 
the final version is called "golden master" or "GM". So you would generally 
see "Mac OS X 10.9 DP3" for the third developer release, or the version 
number "Mac OS X 10.9 13A598". Sometimes there is a golden master released 
to developers and another golden master release publically. The public 
release is the final version.

Here are the versions of Mavericks that has been released:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Mavericks#Releases

As you can see, there are five build seperating the GM from the GM2. 

-- 
Sandman[.net]

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The Death of 10.8? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-28 14:08 +0000
  Re: The Death of 10.8? Mordred <mordred@gmail.com> - 2013-10-28 15:53 +0100
    Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-28 15:12 +0000
      Re: The Death of 10.8? Michelle Steiner <email@michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-28 08:34 -0700
        Re: The Death of 10.8? android <here@there.was> - 2013-10-28 16:48 +0100
          Re: The Death of 10.8? android <here@there.was> - 2013-10-28 16:55 +0100
            Re: The Death of 10.8? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-28 16:24 +0000
              Re: The Death of 10.8? android <here@there.was> - 2013-10-28 17:33 +0100
              Re: The Death of 10.8? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-10-28 10:10 -0700
              Re: The Death of 10.8? David Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.mac.com> - 2013-10-28 16:14 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-29 09:39 +1300
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-10-28 14:23 -0700
        Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-28 15:54 +0000
          Re: The Death of 10.8? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-28 14:50 -0400
            Re: The Death of 10.8? Mordred <mordred@gmail.com> - 2013-10-28 19:56 +0100
              Re: The Death of 10.8? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-28 15:11 -0400
            Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-28 21:24 +0000
              Re: The Death of 10.8? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-28 18:10 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 07:49 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-29 05:49 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 10:25 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-29 06:52 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 11:41 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-29 10:29 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 15:38 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 06:36 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 06:35 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 06:33 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-29 08:47 -0500
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 15:45 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-29 14:32 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-29 09:57 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 07:35 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 15:50 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 08:58 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 16:03 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-29 23:36 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-29 14:32 -0400
          Re: The Death of 10.8? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-28 18:11 -0400
    Re: The Death of 10.8? David Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.mac.com> - 2013-10-28 12:19 -0400
      Re: The Death of 10.8? Mordred <mordred@gmail.com> - 2013-10-28 19:59 +0100
    Re: The Death of 10.8? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-28 16:22 +0000
      Re: The Death of 10.8? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-28 20:53 +0000
        Re: The Death of 10.8? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-28 21:55 +0000
          Re: The Death of 10.8? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-28 22:53 +0000
            Re: The Death of 10.8? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-28 18:58 -0400
              Re: The Death of 10.8? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-28 23:24 +0000
            Re: The Death of 10.8? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-28 19:13 -0400
              Re: The Death of 10.8? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-10-28 16:32 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-10-28 16:35 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-28 20:04 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-28 22:45 -0400
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-29 23:26 +0000
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-10-29 18:14 -0700
                Re: The Death of 10.8? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-28 23:59 -0400
    Re: The Death of 10.8? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-28 20:50 +0000
    Re: The Death of 10.8? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-29 10:53 +1300

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