[K12OSN] Release cycle too fast

Ramon ramonklown at pop.com.br
Thu Mar 31 19:16:03 UTC 2005


I think it's important to keep on coming new releases. I had a keyboard problem a
while ago (4.1 release) and when 4.2 came out it fixed it.
It was a Fedora Core problem I think, but as new releases come along it seems that
Fedora and Ltsp are become more and more stable.
If you don't find bugs then fine, if others do find it they need it fixed and they
will be desperate after that new release for their problems to be resolved.

Maybe someone's job depends on it, who knows.

Peace,
Ramon

> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> Since Sept 2003 when 3.1.2 was released we have had 4.0, 4.1 and now
>> 4.2 and many sub releases to fix problems. That's RH9, FC1, FC2 and
>> FC3 in 1.5 years.
>>
>> I think this is ridiculous for a server platform (even if it is a
>> desktop environ.)
>> Poor Eric H. is continually tracking and fixing bugs in new releases.
>>
>> I think more effort should be put into making k12ltsp better
>> (SchoolBell, VNC Reflector/ Teachertool, smbldap, Moodle, local-apps,
>> Muekow etc..)  rather than releasing with the Fedora schedule.
>>
>> Does anyone else agree with me???
>> BTW I run 3.1.2 at my school.
>>
>
> I'll throw in my 2 cents here...
>
> I use the FC2 release, whichever that is 4.1 I think, and I'm very happy
> with it, and don't feel the need to upgrade to 4.2 really. If it ain't
> broke why fix it?
>
> With MS products where you look at the product life-cycle for the past
> 10 yrs... 95, 98, 98se, ME, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro (not including all of
> the NT's...) they've had an army creating integration and usability for
> the "ignorant" user.
>
> In Linux things are moving quite rapidly now that it is catching on as a
> viable alternative to MS products...and the growth is tremendous in the
> past 5 years alone.  USB support on a thin client...last year was nearly
> unheard of, the whole Mac Pac catching the LTSP wave and making use of
> lovely antiquated Mac hardware...
>
> The releases are being driven by the needs of the users/admins as far as
>   K12LTSP goes...(or so it seems to me)
>
> The effort you speak of...making it "better" refers to 3rd party
> software, such as VNC Reflector/TeacherTool, SMBLDAP, Moodle, and all
> that jazz...
>
> Personally what I think is that Eric H. aught to be able to focus on the
> releases. Then someone else(plural?) with the skills to begin
> integrating those apps into viable packages that are
> selectable/configurable at install could take that portion of the helm.
>
> As people do this on what I assume is their "free time" I'm just
> grateful to all of those who do contribute and support and to their SO's
> who kindly(maybe not so kindly at times) allow them their "hack-attacks"
> to prep releases and stuff for we who use it =)
>
> So in summary, I agree I would like to see "someone" with the skills
> step up and make K12LTSP better than it already is with more package
> support, but think that Eric is doing a great job keeping K12LTSP up to
> date rather than playing catch up.\
> (still wishes it were debian based though *BIG SMILE*)
>
> --Huck
>
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