On 22 Sep 2002, 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).
OK. Fine. Make the standard installation MDK8.2 or RH7.3 . BUT Install a stable (as much as possible) KDE3 package (and preferably: gnome2). It would also be nice of mozilla had the "bidi selection" bug fixed (Yes, all the above are in the betas) I don't like instaling a beta on other people's computers. But keep in mind that upgrading KDE is something that they'll have to do. This upgrade process is error-prone as well. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
