[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.1 release plan. WAS: Poll: 4.02 vs. 4.1 alpha

David Huckaby dhuckaby at paasda.org
Wed Jul 14 23:39:38 UTC 2004


This is refreshing news!

--Huck

Eric Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 15:39, Huck wrote:
> 
>>I am also in your dilema David.
>>
>>And as busy as this summer has been thus far I've yet to put much
>>thought behind what to do...and your poll has forced me to.
>>So I'll be going with what is stable on August 1...because not being a
>>guru, I will have a lot of work to do in order to deploy
>>this and have it play nicely with my Novell server and all the printers
>>and staff and student machines and macs...
>>
>>Wow...actually just got off the phone with the VP..and staff report back
>>in Aug. 9th...and students Aug 23..
>>So...it is very likely that I will start with what is stable as of next
>>week =)
>>
>>and I'm PRAYING feverently that your Samba/LDAP howto/walkthrough will
>>get me through the hard-part =)
>>
>>--Huck
> 
> 
> The "unstable" part of K12LTSP 4.1 is the LTSP portion. As of later this
> afternoon (assuming the test I'm about to do pan out ;-), I'll have a
> build uploaded that is close to what the final build will be. Everything
> after that will be minor updates/bug fixes. I now have over a dozen
> K12LTSP 4.1 alpha-build servers in production, including all of my
> desktop at work, home, and my laptop. Riverdale HS has the 4.1
> alpha-builds on thirty of their laptops. We've given it a pretty good
> workout, so far so good.
> 
> I want to have a solid, "probably production-ready" K12LTSP 4.1 beta out
> by Friday. That will give me a week to fix any major problems that crop
> up. Then I'm on vacation for a week and won't have 'net access, which is
> *certain* to test how stable the beta is ;-). If no show-stopping bugs
> show up in the LTSP/K12LTSP betas, I'll then declare K12LTSP 4.1 the
> current stable release.
> 
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
>>Behalf Of David Trask
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:46 PM
>>To: K12OSN at redhat.com
>>Subject: [K12OSN] Poll: 4.02 vs. 4.1 alpha
>>
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm taking a poll to help me make up my mind.  It's getting into the
>>summer and I need to make up my mind as to whether to deploy 4.02 or
>>wait a week or two and deploy whatever the latest 4.1 happens to be.
>>What are others doing?
>>
>>David N. Trask
>>Technology Teacher/Coordinator
>>Vassalboro Community School
>>dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
>>(207)923-3100
>>
> 
> 
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