Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:57:24PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >>On Fri, 13 May 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote: >> >> >>>>Would it be at all possible for a semi-official debian-edu/skolelinux >>>>backports archive to exist for this? >> >>>This approach would not help us keeping up with hardware, just some >>>programs. >> >>I presume that the major issue with hardware is the installer. An extra >>APT source won't really help that. Hardware problems with initial >>installation would likely be with new disk controllers, network cards and >>possibly video cards. For a novice, if the cd doesn't have support they >>might as well forget it. They really need a cd that has this stuff. > > > I thought that the new Debian Installer is modular, allowing for > things like additional-drivers-on-a-floppy (Hmm, any done win2K > install on a SATA drive recently... kinda hurts when the new PC > doesn't have a floppy). Even if this is a PITA, the modular nature > _should_ mean creating new install CD's with additional drivers is > relatively painless.
It is, but you have to know how to do it :) Everythig is easy when you know how. >>A second aspect of hardware is that of thin/half-thick clients. An APT >>source with a newer version of LTSP or Lessdisks, or a new kernel for them >>etc might be a help. The nature of thin clients is often that they aren't >>usually that new so I suspect this is not so important (although the X >>Server in LTSP 3 is very old now). > > > In my experience, thin clients are hugely varied... you use whatever > you can lay your hands on; old, new, middling, with no two the same. > This makes hardware support doubly hard... As long as they work - use them, if they start to make trouble dump them. >>My intention in saying this was not so much to propose a solution to the >>hardware problem as to show that there are one or two things other than >>hardware which cause issues when out of date and to suggest a possible >>solution to those. > > > I noticed the deathly silence to my "upgrades are inevitable; face it" > post... but the reality is, any "stable release" is going to need > regular updates, or will rapidly become so stale it is unusable. The > staler it is, the harder the next "upgrade" is too. This is the > problem, for hardware and software. And your point is ? -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
