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newbiesforever 02-15-2009 02:27 PM
"RC" = ?
 
I am reading this on mepis.org: "Warren has uploaded ISO files for RC2 of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 to the MEPIS pools." What is "RC"? I understand the point from from the context, but what does it stand for? I'm guessing the R is for "release."

repo 02-15-2009 02:34 PM
release candidate ?

XavierP 02-15-2009 03:51 PM
RC does indeed = Release Candidate. It's one of the steps releases go through. Basically, they are very near to the final product but still have a few tweaks and fixes to go through.

acid_kewpie 02-15-2009 04:00 PM
To prolong this lovely thread, what does rc mean with regards to run levels? TBH I can't say I know for sure off hand.

colucix 02-15-2009 04:23 PM
From the Jargon File:
Quote:
rc file - [Unix: from runcom files on the CTSS system 1962-63, via the startup script /etc/rc] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up.
rc simply means run commands!

salasi 02-16-2009 04:38 AM
Release Candidate = something that we have put on our servers as part of the pre-release process and which might be free enough of serious bugs for us to release as is, or it might not be. We will only know when more people try it and submit bug reports (or not).

This tells you a couple of things
  • the final release is believed to be near
  • only people who like the bleeding edge (or who don't understand ;)) will try

acid_kewpie 02-16-2009 02:22 PM
Yeah, we've already done that one...

newbiesforever 02-16-2009 03:00 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by acid_kewpie (Post 3445877)
Yeah, we've already done that one...
What, answered this question?

colucix 02-16-2009 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by newbiesforever (Post 3445906)
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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie
Yeah, we've already done that one...
What, answered this question?
The asked question and a bonus one!

nx5000 02-18-2009 02:39 PM
In debian context:
If a bug is found in a package with a severity of critical(whole system break,serious data loss,system security) or grave(unusable,data loss,user security) or serious(serious violation of the holy policy,opinion of packager or release manager) it will have an impact on releasing the package with the stable release of Debian and is thus considered..
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Release Critical


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