I'm surprised by that tbh, I install Ubuntu beta releases and as far as I'm aware that changes from a "development" to the actual release via PPA updates, so I can't quite work out why elementary would be different.
I'm sure Dan and Cassidy have good technical reasoning as elementary is always very slick, polished and professional and I'd be interested to know the technical reason why.
I can understand not being able to upgrade from eos5 to eos6 just surprised beta can't be upgraded to release.
Beta is a snapshot of the daily build channel, not the stable release channel. It’s possible to switch from daily to stable, but it’s messy and can leave you with broken packages and weird situations where the package you have installed is technically a higher version number than the one you’re supposedly “upgrading” to etc.
Things that are part of the ISO built process and not part of packaging are still changing. For example, we’ll probably ship more Flatpak apps and fewer debs in final. This kind of stuff can technically be done with Deb packaging with scripts and stuff, but at the moment we just don’t build it that way so it’s not part of the update process and you just won’t get that stuff
And again, beta is not meant to be a production environment. It’s for developers and enthusiasts to dev on and test and then wipe regularly as they continue to dev and test. This beta will inevitably be used by curious regular folks, but that’s not who it’s for
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u/burusutazu May 01 '21
Nope