I have to agree with you, I aided another poster to start thin 'whining' thread, ut it's part of the development process .. I did this flash because my machine needed a fresh start and it did wonders. I just wish the OpenSSH was working! Gary Baribault Courriel: gary at baribault.net GPG Key: 0x4346F013 GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 08:12:02 Fred C wrote: >> 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, ... > > It was broke. It tended to brick SD cards. Want some? They make fair guitar > pics now. > >> 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. > > Wow I have the luxury of running 4 data centers that I watch update > themselves. Note, none of them are windows. I don't have the luxury of > waiting for security updates etc. That would be for me, suicide. > >> 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. > > This is linux. That's how we work, release early and often. No one is > complaining about the idea of the fix. Just the way in which updates are > managed. It's how we work. We not only complain we also discuss and solve. > The whining you so fondly mention is for us a part of the process. > Communication is the key. >> >> 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... > > I stopped being a guinea ping in 1996 when I removed my last MS install and > went Unix/Linux. I'm not at all a guinea pig now. I lost guinea pig status > because I chose to be a partner in the development of the products future. > I've already seen a number of changes made just because of others who chose > to join in on this effort. (Note, I need to contribute more, I know). Once > is a guinea pig only if you allow yourself to be experimented on. One is > never the guinea pig if you are helping to run the experiment. > > James > > PS .... I'm finding a lot of things working much nicer in the new update > beyond the documented updates. Like tabs in the browser! Then again I'm > just glad I decided to wait recently. I'd done a number of "fixes" that I > unfixed and I needed a clean install almost did it the day before the > release! *whew* > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > >
