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raja.genupula
September 2nd, 2011, 10:46 AM
now i am using xubuntu 11.10 . i came through a news from twitter friends that 11.10 beta version released , what is the difference between alpha & beta versions .

aeiah
September 2nd, 2011, 11:31 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle

raja.genupula
September 2nd, 2011, 01:36 PM
thank you very much:)

Merk42
September 2nd, 2011, 02:24 PM
Another point, if you had 11.10 alpha and kept doing updates, then you now have the beta (no need to download and install the beta), keep doing updates and you'll have the Release Candidate, then Final release.