improving when do we get the "upgrade"

Each release shows marginal but steady improvement.

The major releases suffer from the same problem the windows people have and that shows at least there is common code and consistency.

I think this code is for tested distributions beta quality if not better.

When do we get a production release?

yevkie

I believe they are calling it an "alpha" release only because certain features remain unimplemented. Traditionally, "beta" means all features work, but there are still bugs that need to be eliminated. I think you're right, the current "alpha" is at least as good as the current Windows release, and I think better because it runs under Linux! But it still needs some things to be implemented, such as the movie viewer and update download function.