Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:01:56PM -0400, Patrick Rady wrote: >> Actually, Intrepid pre-release has seemed less-crufty than Hardy. But I'm >> almost afraid to try testing it. > > And here, my friends, is the ENTIRE problem. > > We work very hard to come out with new versions, but the number of people who > take the time to TEST the new versions as they're coming out, and help us to > FIX the bugs while things are still in development is small to non-existant. > They simply show up when it's released, upgrade their systems, and then wonder > why there's bugs. > > We don't have a crisis of LTSP faith. > We don't have a crisis of Ubuntu faith. > > We have a crisis of users forgetting that Free Software's supposed to be a > community, and that if you want this great free stuff, the price is for you to > GET INVOLVED, and help the unpaid, volunteer developers to TEST the software > in > your environments, and work through things WHILE THEY'RE IN DEVELOPMENT, as > opposed to waiting for release date, then testing it then. > Maybe I'm alone in this feeling, but I'm a little confused about where exactly development is taking place. In the days of LTSP 4.2, it was on this list. When LTSP 5 came out, it seemed to become a little de-centralized. Ubuntu was the only distro for a while that even used LTSP 5. Today Debian and Fedora (and probably more) are onboard, but I don't hear much about those distros on this list.
Also, today, the best place for LTSP 5 documentation (that I know of) is an Edubuntu handbook. Why isn't it in /usr/share/doc on my system? Maybe some of the problem is that I don't fully understand the line between LTSP development and LTSP integration into a distro. But here's my perspective: I use two different versions of LTSP on 4 different distros, and I'd like one single place to make my contributions and to find out what needs testing. Can I test new versions/features of LTSP without also testing an Alpha version of Ubuntu? I'd like to use one of my stable/dependable distros that are already installed, and install an /opt/ltsp-testing tree in that to do all my bugfinding/bugfixing -- is that possible? Thanks for all the hard work you guys are all doing. -Rob ******************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
