Hi,
I can't tell you specifics as to exactly what has been updated in
the new version, but basically I think mostly changes are in
distros and releases that are supported, i.e. each new voxin
version supports newer releases of popular Linux distros. I bought
two languages back in 2010 or 2011 at the latest mostly because
espeak is not at all easy to listen to in Spanish, almost unusable
at higher speeds for many users, (maybe most native and or fluent
Spanish speakers); and as the price is so reasonable I grabbed
English at the same time. The version I bought would not install
on the Vinux 3.0 based on Ubuntu 10.04 I wanted to use it with. I
tried several times taking in to account the suggestions I
received from Vinux and or Voxin users. A few months later I tried
again, but after updating to the newest voxin release, and all was
well. It appeared that I'd not done anything wrong. Something was
updated and/or fixed in voxin. Ubuntu 10.04 and Vinux 3.0 were
very new when I first tried Voxin, (was for sure 2010 when I
bought voxin/first tried installing it thinking about it a bit
more); and I've heard of similar cases.
Do not worry about any versions you may not have ever downloaded.
Usually the latest is indeed the greatest. I have read lists of
what is supported, and was impressed by how quickly new Linux
flavors were added.
RC means release candidate, i.e. if no major bugs are reported,
and things generally work as the software writer's thought they
would then the RC is accepted as ready for prime time as it were
and with few if any changes is renamed to the appropriate
name/number.
Some more complex programs or some thing like a Linux distro may
have quite a few release candidates if there is a pesky bug, but
generally devs try and get it right before pinning the rc on the
end and after a more or less predetermined testing period call
there work an official release if no problems occur.
Just to give a bit of perspective: traditionally when software is
almost ready for the mainstream user testing versions are made
available either to a select group of people, (private testing) or
to anyone who wishes to try the program. If there is still a bit
of work to do to get things stable and as bug free as practical
the testing version is called an alpha release. If it is mostly
good to go as far as the developers know, i.e. features working as
expected and few known bugs are rearing there ugly heads the
software will be called a beta release. Finally, once the bugs
that can be fixed have been fixed and the developers either feel
good about their work or are tired of working on the program in
question we get the rc.
One man or woman's alpha version may be another's beta, and public alphas are not so common as public betas, and not all software is ready for the street even when a release is called official. Sometime it is about time, and devs keep to a schedule for personal or economic reasons.
To sum up a a testing cycle we have one or more of the following
in this order; alpha, beta, rc and then the official release.
There can be 1 or more of any of these.
Lastly some software uses even numbers for official releases and odd ones for testing versions; oldschool, but it lives on in some cases.
Hth
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B.H.
Hi,Can anyone tell me the difference between Voxin 2.2 and voxin-enu-3.1rc2?My downloads went from one to the other, and seems like there is possibly a version in-between, going by the numbers.And what is the RC for?Thanks.Glenn