(sorry for the evocative subject) hey folks,
I wish to share my experiences and thoughts after 10 days of practice with 1 main server, 1 terminal server, and 14 thin clients (plus one work station for the teacher). I am not just a plain using teacher, I was also involved in setting the system up, maintainance and updates. Last successes: * Installation of Java SDK 1.4.2 from Blackdown (hints available) * Installation of Mozilla 1.0.x plus Flash 6 (working) * Re-installation of network printer after swapping NICs Last surprises: * After apt-get upgrade, OpenOffice was in English again. Starting the Setup/Repair option helped. * After installation of mozilla, each user faces kpersonalize again after login. * Those "stable" versions of konqueror or openoffice seem to crash more often than the "unstable"/"testing" versions I use at home. Refering to the subject line: now, why are they called stable then? Isn't it like this: Especially for modern projects (take muse) 90% of their development have taken place without getting into "stable". This means (very obviously) a minus in features whilst I doubt that there is a plus in stability. Maybe, there were more security issues detected, but does this count for a terminal server (if seperate)? Another example is wine: I'd say, the amount of win apps supported has increased immensly from the last stable version... I do know that there are plans to make 1.0 based on sarge. I also know that there are backports. But does anybody have experiences with upgrading to testing/sarge? Are the skolelinux relevant packages compatible with newer libs? One more question as for workstations: Is there any way to keep the installed packages synchron with those installed on a terminal server? Another problem with open office: When I open Extras/Data sources, the URL to dbase should be like ~.openoffice/1.0.2/user/database/biblio/ which was the case with pr47. After last update it points to some /usr path where one cannot write to. Alternation is lost with restarting Openoffice... Comments like questions are welcome - as always :) Regards Ralf
