Hi,

Well, i will try to explain briefly. Since the early realese I started installing GNS3 on linuxmint following a tutorial from this forum (topic9106.html) . Everything worked fine. After like 2 months without using it (all my time used at my job u_U) I decided today to update it using the same procedure.(which are the last 2 step of the tutorial) to practice with junos.

It seems updated worked as now i have a working gns3 but I realized that on the information console says. :

"GNS3 management console. Running GNS3 Early Release (ER) version 1.0b1.dev1 on linux"

And i guess it should say something like alpha version 1.0a8. X__X

So if anyone can tell me what is going on .. if this is right or wrong or i dont know...

pd: I checked the new Features said to be on alpha8 like inserting an image and change symbols and it works... so .. i dont understand x_x

thanks for your help :D

The a stand for alpha. a8 is alpha 8 and b stand for beta. Thus, the 1.0b1.dev1 can be read as version 1.0 beta 1 development version 1. This means the next release will be the our first beta!

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers,

_________________
Jeremy, GNS3 Programmer & Benevolent Dictator for Life.

Dear grossmj,

I understand your explanation.

But, :) this means that the beta version is better than the alpha, in other words, to get the lastest features do i stick with the alpha or with the beta version, or is it the same?

Thanks,

Just more stable when released (now it is just a development version, so we are working on it). In other words, stick with the alpha for now and switch to the beta when we release the first beta (1.0b1).

Cheers,

_________________
Jeremy, GNS3 Programmer & Benevolent Dictator for Life.

Just to followup on Jeremy's post... instead of wget'ing the master branch, you can download the release tarballs

GNS3 Server - https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-server/releases
GNS3 GUI - https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-gui/releases

These two pages list the releases as they are tagged in the GitHub Repository

_________________
Daniel
Forum Moderator & Debian Package Maintainer for GNS3, Dynamips & VPCS.
Standalone DEB Packages are available from http://gns3.serverb.co.uk - To be updated!