Hey all!

As I reinstall my hub node after it got compromised this morning, I find myself a little confused at just which download option I should use for an amd64 architecture machine.

The site seems to recommend DIAL RC1, but RC *usually* means Release Candidate – meaning it’s not quite ready for prime time, but getting close to release.  I would not usually consider a “RC” release to be the recommended release under any circumstances.  The other problem comes from looking at the file modification dates on the dvswitch.org server:

The RC1 file – amd64-i386-DIAL-RC1.tar.gz – is dated Nov 15, 2016

The other file – dial-allstar-netinstall.iso – is dated Jan 22, 2017

So it *seems* that the RC1 is older than the other one, while still being the recommended install – but the name would not tend to agree, as the RC should be a candidate for release as a newer version, so should be newer than the existing “stable” version – and the stable version should be the recommended download – or at least this is how it would work in most open source projects.

What am I missing?  And once installed, is there any danger in using the Debian “apt-get update” command to update the packages for the underlying Linux OS to their newest versions?

Thanks,

Jeremy, NQ0M