* Marc Haber mh+grml@zugschlus.de [20070116 15:09]:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:50:59PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
- Marc Haber mh+grml@zugschlus.de [20070116 13:15]:
Fortunately, a lot of newbies use older hardware for Linux.
True for workstations, but IMO not true for notebooks.
Using Linux on a notebook is "hohe Schule". Not a good idea for a newbie.
Yupp, but notebooks are getting much more common as they aren't that expensive anymore (compared to just a few years ago). That's a trend distributions have to be aware of if they want to stay in the enduser market IMO.
While this is for example understandable for exim 3, which has been obsoleted upstream by exim 4 some five years ago, this is ridiculous for some KDE apps which do not get upstream support because it is four weeks old.
Just think of the big KDE version steps between woody (2.2.2) and sarge (3.3.2).
We agree that the sarge release did take _TOO_ much time.
Sure, but that's something a user cannot control.
regards, -mika-