Hi Robert,
from the timestamps on one of the download mirrors, it seems that this beta has been out for about five weeks now. i don't think it's unreasonable to think that there have been enough bug reports and fixes to let the beta testers have a crack at an improved version.
What do you expect to be different (apart from the installer) from your current beta updated to Rawhide? Shouldn't that render exactly the same system? Or am I missing something?
By the way, what happened to your daylight savings?
Bye, Leonard.
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