On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:33 AM, David Orman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you give an average person the current 2008.5 cd, would you wager >>> they'd successfully be able to install it on their hardware, update it to >>> the most recent release, and perform all other necessary/wise things? >>> >> > But the current distro is not aimed at average people, right? Give us a few > releases to get there. However, I must say, I'm probably the least technical > person on this list, and I did just as you outlined above from reading > /only/ this list and whatever the distro prompted me to do. I had very few > difficulties. And trust me, I have little patience for technology. I'm not arguing it should be there already, I'm simply arguing we should strive to get there in the future - and updated ISOs would allow people earlier access to the fixed bits. :) As to your second point, required reading of mailing lists to update an OS is beyond the "average" person. I understand where you are coming from (and agree, OSOL isn't ready for the "average" person yet) - but my argument wasn't made to apply only to the current state - more towards the future. Even so, being a relatively technical person myself, I'd still appreciate a lot of the stuff that takes fussing with to work currently, to just "work" down the road. I think everyone would! That said, I was discussing things in terms of more frequent/a new ISO build, and how it would help/apply to new/current users. Regarding the rest of your email, I 100% agree! Cheers, David
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