Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

[Markus Gamenius <markus@gamenius.net>]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sun, 8 May 2005, Arnt Ove Gregersen wrote:
>
> > The unpredictable and not-so-frequent releases of Debian worries me.
>
> Is it worriing *you* or your *users*.  Wanting the latest and greatest
> software is a very developer centric point of view.  Keeping your users
> busy by providing frequently changing applications might not be the
> most important thing you should focus on.  It is more the other way
> around I'm observing in a similar target user group:  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!  (Sorry, my users were shouting
> and thus I uses capital letters.)
>
> > I think it wil be hard for Skolelinux/Debian-edu to compete with for 
> > example
> > Microsoft Windows based systems in the long run if we stay on the same 
> > path
> > as now.
>
> Please think twice about *your personal* point of view and the point of
> view of *your users*.

My USERS are actualy stressing me to find something newer. This did 
hapend at "my school" (I did work at this schoo1 until 5. months ago)  1 
year ago. We did change all the LTSP-servers to Sarge so we could get a 
newer desktop. The main server was kept on Woody (Standard Skolelinux). 
No one were sorry for this move.

Markus