[K12OSN] Re: K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?

[Joseph Bishay]

Hello,

> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:10:44 -0600
> From: Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com>
>   Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Re: K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:26, Joseph Bishay wrote:
> > This may be a silly question, but I've never used the update feature
> > in K12LTSP.  I see I could use synaptic or yum update, but my
> > question is: When would I do so?  Is there a need to run yum
> > update/synaptic?  If everything is running smoothly, what am I going
> > to be upgrading? I realize that in MS updates are often to correct
> > security issues, but I thought Linux was more immune to those sort
> > of lapses. Why else would I want to run it?
> 
> There are a lot of people finding bugs and making improvements in open
> source programs all the time and if you want to take advantage of
> their work you should to the updates...
> There are two sets of things happening: the base fedora release
> gets security and bug fixes backported to the program versions
> that came with the release, generally without adding new features to
> minimize the risk of changes.  (Hence the rapid turnover in base
> fedora releases to get out new features and reduce the work to
> maintain the backports).  The other part is for the k12ltsp addons
> which tend to be version updates to the various programs that happen
> on Eric's schedule.  
> ---
>    Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com

That does sound like an excellent reason. However, if I am running an 
older version of K12ltsp (the one based on RH9 from about a year or 
more ago), will it break anything?  Is this the equivalent of 
upgrading from Windows 98 -> Windows XP? (Sorry if the example 
offends anyone :)  

Joseph