On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:36:10 -0700 Thomas Leavitt <thomas at thomasleavitt.org> wrote: > What I'm not understanding here is that the tablet is a debian Linux > system, in it's essence... what's the issue with just making the > updated packages available, for the power users and tweakers willing > to go through the work of a manual update? What I'm not understanding is the big rush to update for a few minor fixes, especially if there's the known potential of extra user overhead getting the update and apps all sorted out. If it aint broke, ... Or put another way, my Clinc's software runs over 1000 per year for updates and support. A couple month's ago the released a major update/upgrade which I've still not installed. It takes months to sort out the bugs in this sort of stuff, plus the staff has to be brought up to speed overnight. So I'm sitting back and waiting for the dust to settle so when I do the install (10 stations), it's rock solid so I don't have to hassle of training the staff how do deal with a lot of kludge workarounds to get work done, or (worse case) data crash which would caase everything to come to a halt. I'm paying decent bucks (along with 30000 other clinics) for this update 'service', which I'm choosing to go slow on. Ditto for the megabuck software running my dental cad/cam system. It's laughable that a bunch of whiner techno geeks fully expect their newly released, reasonably functional, internet tablet to be provided with instant FREE updates tto match their every whim. As far as I can tell (by clinical software standards), the OS that most of us are currently using is really a modestly stable early beta version of the final stable OS. We're the guinea pigs of this project/product, complete with a significant segment of this user population who insist on running on their damn noisey treadmill all night, who then spend their days complaining about all the work they 'have' to do at night. It's seriously funny stuff guys...
