* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070116 15:09]: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:50:59PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > > * Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070116 13:15]:
> > > Fortunately, a lot of newbies use older hardware for Linux. > > True for workstations, but IMO not true for notebooks. > Using Linux on a notebook is "hohe Schule". Not a good idea for a > newbie. Yupp, but notebooks are getting much more common as they aren't that expensive anymore (compared to just a few years ago). That's a trend distributions have to be aware of if they want to stay in the enduser market IMO. > > > While this is for example understandable for exim 3, which has been > > > obsoleted upstream by exim 4 some five years ago, this is ridiculous > > > for some KDE apps which do not get upstream support because it is four > > > weeks old. > > Just think of the big KDE version steps between woody (2.2.2) and > > sarge (3.3.2). > We agree that the sarge release did take _TOO_ much time. Sure, but that's something a user cannot control. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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