its hard to say when the final will be out. it depends on how stable the BETA is. So if there are a lot of issues and crashes it will be in BETA longer since the devs have to fix the major bugs. i personally dont think it will be in beta for more than 2 months
Beta are not meant to be installed in the main machine unless you regularly make backup of important files. Wmware is one way to test products without putting the OS at risk. Another would be to have a second computer, install the wanted OS and test it there.
I have 2.9beta and it stable, on my 64bit Win7 Pro
i would just wait for 3. even though its taking a little while for the beta. they said there are a lot of new features and a lot of new code so hopefully more stable.
Rember the “:)” Melih made on one of my posts? If I am not wrong CTM 3.0 might have it’s very own OS to protect and make itself independent and protects the user.
Your post is confusing and conflicting. First you say 2.9 has been stable in your experience, but next minute you indicate you are waiting for version 3. So which is it? Have you used 2.9 or not?