Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation
søndag 8. mai 2005, 23:33, skrev Andreas Tille:
> Give me back my good old version i know and i was able to work with
> instead of keeping me busy with learning this new version!
We have some examples in Norway where sys.admins have got a lot of
explaining to do when upgradring from KDE 2.2.2 to 3.X. The teachers
was happy with the previous version, and didn't se the improvements as
essential.
I got this message from Michael Bishop from Hawaii earlier this year
(Februar 17th 2005: 21:54):
> My school, McKinley Community School for Adults, located in Hawaii
> has been using K12LTSP to run a 20 computer lab for about 2 years
> now. We are looking into a more scaleable approach and I much prefer
> Debian over the ever changing bleeding-edge Fedora. I am willing to
> create a test lab and then migrate my lab over to Skole.
>
> We (HOSEF - hosef.org) have 2 schools that currently have a K12LTSP
> lab and they are looking to expand beyond the lab into the
> classrooms. The approach of Skole which includes central
> authentication, central storage, and distributed terminal servers
> with the stability of Debian is exactly what they need. One of them
> is ready to start testing; the other is getting there
This shows that it's a huge difference between handeling and operate a
installed Linux network, and the sales effect when people get
impressed by the latest and gratest. The sys.admin got a lot of extra
work if he/she upgrades from KDE 2 to KDE 3.X. Some of this could be
avoided with keeping the KDE 2 skin on KDE 3. When it comes to
decision making the situation is reversed. Then you can impress
potential users with a nice KDE 3.X GUI with greate colours, and
showing of a video from a USB-pen. So in a day-to-day operation people
get conservative. But when bying something new they want the latest
and greatest. But not so greate that it gives extra operational
cost. Thats why companies often waits a year before deploing new
versions of Windows. And they keep the Windows-version for as long as
posible, often 5-7 years. They complain if the have to chang OS
version because of new hardare that the old software don't support.
- Knut
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