[K12OSN] *EARLY* Alpha of K12LTSP 3.2

[Andrew]

But this is exactly the point for many of us....
I am not running a media lab, or making heavy use of removeable media, 
or even scsi emulation. New "Features" that might be handy there (though 
I suspect redhat of having their
business nearest and dearest to their hearts when they introduce a new 
feature, not part of a linus kernel release)  have a nasty tendency to 
make previously happy software kinda unhappy.  I love playing with new 
toys on my time,  But when every instance of  oowriter crashes on a room 
full of students mid-paper  I tend to regret whatever shiny new thing I 
introduced that caused it.   I would tend to think that more hardware 
can be made to work reliably with whitebox than with fedora--for no 
reason than by checking on what redhat does and does not support....( I 
know--they don't actually support whitebox, but you get my drift).  I 
dunno,. Are we all clear on what Fedora is? It is redhat's test bed for 
new features. Those that check out get into enterprise (eventually) See 
their site, they'll you tell so. The idea that the "fix" for the feature 
is in a kernel patch is ingenuous. The "fix" is stable when it is in 
RHEL, Debian stable and maybe testing, and probably whatever 
commercially suported version of suse is put out by Novell. If no one is 
calling it stable or supporting it..it isn't proven to be stable and is 
still "testing" and thus not "stable" however well it seems to work on 
some systems. This is usually moot on stuff that is actually released, 
but worth bearing in mind when your newest fedora update or refresh of 
your sid system generates a blank screen and tells you some vital system 
component isn't there anymore.  Tell me would you book a flight for your 
family across the pacific on a prototype jet? They usually fly pretty 
well......    If fedora is working for you, That's great. I hope it 
stays that way through all the projected tri-annual updates. ( deos 
anyone get the sense that I'm somehow bitter about fedora? <G>)

I am really impressed that eric went out of his way to do this, and I 
think it will see a surprising amount of use. It has certainly made me 
reconsider a move to debian for my ltsp server.
-AF

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 12:12, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
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>>Awesome.  A completely packaged version based off a stable distro such
>>as RHEL/WBEL would be an excellent alternative.  For me I don't want
>>cutting edge, I need stable.
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>I strongly suspect you are being overly optimistic about RHEL based
>distro's solving all the weird hardware issues you might encounter.
>I'd guess that would fall more in the 'feature' category that
>is intentionally not backported to keep from breaking anything
>else even when the fix is added to new kernels.  I'd like to
>be proven wrong about this, but...
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>On the other hand if it turns out that your particular hardware
>does work reliably with it you should have a better chance of
>keeping it up to date with security related updates longer
>without major changes.
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>  Les Mikesell
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