My guess is that most of us don't have extra systems to run the beta releases on and can't afford to take the chance of having a system go down when there are 6 or 10 or 30 schoolchildren depending on it. If I could figure out a way to install a beta on my server and then reboot if there's a show-stopper bug, I'd do it, but my primary job isn't technical support--I'm a CS teacher using a self-contained lab and the lab administration happens during the free time I can find when I'm not planning for the six sections (three different classes, about 150 students) of classes I have to teach.
Don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy to help out by trying pre-releases, but to make it more likely for that to happen, it has to be easier to run them on production systems. Maybe a good investment of time would be to create a simple way for people to create a dual-boot system that uses the current settings so that, for example, I could turn on the beta for a class or two to develop bug reports and then switch back. BTW, I haven't noticed that Hardy is slow at all on the two stand-alone machines I've installed it on. I'm hoping to put it on my system at school early next week. My only complaint is that Firefox 3 doesn't seem to be quite ready for prime-time, yet--the lack of some of my favorite extensions has made me downgrade to Firefox 2 on both machines I'm using. Todd On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > Am Samstag, den 03.05.2008, 12:51 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert: > > > > so no, we wont go back, if theer are issues in ltsp5 lets fix them > > instead of going back to stoneage ;) indeed that needs testers to > > communicate to developers *before* a release. > > just to extend that sentence, there is a planned 8.04.1 release [1], we > can do fixes for that if people report them in the bugtracker now ... > > ciao > oli > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
