Re: A suggestion
On Thu April 3 2008 9:55:40 am Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:03:51AM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> > _you_ may want more up to date packages, but a lot of people are
> > entirely happy with etch on their desktop. For example, both me and my
> > mother.
> >
> > I'd also go as far to say that most corporate Linux desktops, to pick
> > another example, would welcome the lack of change for 18 months.
>
> Given how much uproar there is about Microsoft's desire to retire
> Windows XP while many people would rather stick with it that go to
> Vista, perhaps the idea that everyone wants the latest and greatest is
> no longer true.
I want the latest and greatest driver support. That's where the analogy
breaks down, since XP still supports latest hardware, but etch doesn't.
(Note that "Support" for XP may not mean "supports out of the box", but
that "drivers are available")
The rest of your point is valid for a corporate desktop system. I give our
users etch, although my workstation runs unstable.
-- John
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