[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.2.4EL planning... how stable?

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 15:26:52 UTC 2006


On 9/4/06, Kevin Verheyen <thepiano at telenet.be> wrote:
>
> Speaking for belgian users (speaking for me offcourse ;-)  an update
> for openoffice to 2.X would be wonderfull too, as the belgian
> governement has adopted ODF as standard documentation format.


Centos 4.4 includes an update to OOo 1.1.5 which includes read support for
ODF. I don't think you can save though. But 2.0 can read the old format.


Kevin
>
> Op 2-sep-06, om 17:49 heeft Peter Hartmann het volgende geschreven:
>
> > I'd like the new features but wouldn't mind being able to boot and use
> > the old tree if things didn't work out right off the bat client-side.
> >  But I don't know if that would be complicated to automate.
> >
> > Thanks Eric
> >
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> > On 9/1/06, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> CentOS 4.4 has been released & I've started work on K12LTSP 4.2.4EL.
> >>
> >> The question is how stable should the stable branch be?
> >>
> >>
> >> There are a half-dozen end-user applications that can be updated.
> >> These
> >> would be essentially back-ports from FC5 (K12LTSP 5.0). Does anyone
> >> using K12LTSP 4.2EL have concerns about bumping up to the
> >> latest-and-greatest of any of these packages?
> >>
> >>
> >> Package Name   K12LTSP 4.2.3EL version  Latest version
> >> ------------  ------------------------  ---------------------------
> >> blender       2.37-2.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL    2.42-6.fc5
> >> celestia      1.3.2-3.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL   1.4.1-5.fc5
> >> childsplay    0.81.1-2.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL  0.83-1.fc5
> >> DansGuardian  2.7.6-7.k12ltsp.0.4.0     2.9.7.1-0.k12ltsp.0.5.0.0
> >> gcompris      7.1.1-4.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL   7.4-13.fc5
> >> inkscape      0.43-1.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL    0.44-4.fc5
> >> tuxmath       0.2001.9.7-0103           0.2005.10.11-0
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The real big question is whether or not to switch from LTSP 4.1 to
> >> LTSP
> >> 4.2? This is not an insignificant change, considering that the kernel
> >> for the terminals is changed from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel.
> >>
> >> Considering that a "stable" branch should favor stability over
> >> shiny new
> >> features, I am currently leaning towards leaving K12LTSP 4.2.4EL with
> >> the older LTSP 4.1 packages. This is largely a question with
> >> upgrades,
> >> so I'd like to hear from those of you currently running K12LTSP
> >> 4.2.3EL.
> >> Are the new features in LTSP 4.2 (largely improved USB/CD/floppy
> >> support) worth the risk of potentially breaking some of your
> >> terminals?
> >>
> >>
> >> -Eric
> >>
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