s�ndag 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
