[Coco] OS9/NITROS Primer

Richard E. Crislip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Thu Oct 1 23:54:20 EDT 2015


On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 00:00:14 +0200
Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the moment it doesn't matter much, but in general I would not
> recommend pointing beginners or the innocent user to the
> nightly/development builds. NitrOS-9 stable releases are available at
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/files/releases/
> 
> (clearly linked from www.nitros9.org)
> 
> Only if you have tried the latest release you should go on to a
> development version. Nobody guarantees that the current development
> version is usable and won't eat your floppies/HD/kittens. The stable
> releases provide a well-tested base with known functionality.
> 
> Development versions might provide further functionality and bug
> fixes, and I would encourage as much testing on it as possible, but
> please try the stable release first to avoid getting stuck at some
> "under construction" issue.
> 
> That said, there is as of today no recent changes to the development
> version, and it has been tested by many over the last months so there
> should be nothing to be afraid of. On the other hand there are no
> critical fixes or very important additions since the 3.3.0 release
> that would prevent anyone from starting there.
> 
> Tormod
> 

Hi Tormod, I assume that by 3.3.0, you mean 6903L2 v3.3.0... correct?
TIA


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