On Sunday 22 September 2002 12:06, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > its responsible if you make sure the owner understands this is a > > "bleeding edge" software, and therefor, not a very stable \ tested one. > > if its ok with him, why not ? > > Because he is likely to be much less experienced than you are, and > because the ultimate purpose of the instaparty is promotong Linux. If > the "victim" runs into a problem with beta distro the chances he will > get competent help easily are low, and we are running the risk of > losing him for quite a while, because he is going to be disappointed. > > With stable popular distros there is much less chance of a serious > problem and there is active mailing list support (btw, installers > should give URL's for those lists after installation). > > > i still think that as long as the subject understands the > > implications, he should be able to choose if he wants to "live on > > the edge" or not. > > I am afraid it would be difficult to judge whether or not the customer > (it helps to think of the "victim" as a customer) understands the > implications the way you do. I would not be surprised if your careful > explanation about "bleeding edge" would be interpreted as "the latest > and the greatest XPerience" vs. "trusted and widely deployed NT". And > this is quite different, because XP has been extensively QAed. As we > all know, even that does not make it problem-free (and neither is > Valhalla). The subject's frame of reference may be quite different > from yours, and don't forget that if everything succeeds the > installers will be under a lot of pressure there.
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