Dear folks, I am gladly observing the progress towards the release of Debian Edu Lenny.
Simultaneously, I have been following a conference about acquiring new computers (some of them to be shipped with Windows) Now, as Vista is out of question, and XP support to be abondoned, 7 seems to be the only option, here. So, I wonder if we can keep supporting Redmond's non-free OS by means of Samba (what will our release note state?). According to first researches I did on the Web, this is the current state: 1. W7 won't connect to Samba out of the box, but can be tweaked to do so (analogue to this howto for Vista: http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746) 2. W7 requires at least Samba 3.3.4 while Lenny offers only version 3.2.5 (of course there are backports - cf. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/75-63-windows-samba-issue) So what chance is there for a continued support of recent versions of Windows? Thanks/Regards to Oslo (would have loved to be with you)! Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
