"RC" = ?

newbiesforever · 02-15-2009, 02:27 PM

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:

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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

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

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

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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