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[opensuse-project] sad \funny story
- From: James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 23:52:38 -0400
- Message-id: <200705092352.38337.jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Today, wishing to see the latest offering from the Education space, I
downloaded and installed in VMWare, Ubuntu 7.04 education server and add-on
cd. What do you think was one of the first things I noticed as I was poking
around. The ZMD updater firmly and proudly in place in the tool tray, working
perfectly without issue. The funniest part is that this is not the only
obvious flattery to your work. A nicely working ZMD and "software installer"
these are our tools, not theres. Should we invent while they implement and
grow? What is that MS chant , embrace, expand and eliminate? I would like to
reiterate that we should be slowing down and making things work so that our
releases are immediately usable in all categories.
"Good enough", is what Microsoft produces, i.e .active directory is a
miserable beast to tame. It's unwieldy, with tools spread out all over the
place, and limited scalability with core functionality left to expensive 3rd
party vendors to add. Windows releases with huge updates available
on "windowsupdate" days\weeks after the release of W2k, Wxp, and who knows
whats up there for VIsta, but it works half way perfect or "good enough".
There is only one thing that they and Ubuntu have that we don't, incredible
amounts of cash to keep QC personnel employed to make sure there uninspired
teams produce more "good enough". That leaves only two weapons in our
arsenal , the incredible brilliance of the opensuse team and patience.
Our seasoned team has and should produce the most immediately usable
distribution on the planet. It is impossible for us who don't code to keep up
with factory as we try and make use of the software we would like to have
daily. As those who don't think twice of hopping out to the command line to
perform tasks that the daily user wouldn't have the foggiest notion of how to
accomplish i.e rpm -U -v -h , overlook fixing bugs that effect us gui
bound "n00bs" i.e. ZMD.
Please reconsider our pace, repackage 10.2, make a few additions and call it
10.2.1 and work patiently to release 10.3 as next years absolute master piece
this team is capable of.
--
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Novell CNE 3\4\5
CLE \ NCE in training.
http://en.opensuse.org/education
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downloaded and installed in VMWare, Ubuntu 7.04 education server and add-on
cd. What do you think was one of the first things I noticed as I was poking
around. The ZMD updater firmly and proudly in place in the tool tray, working
perfectly without issue. The funniest part is that this is not the only
obvious flattery to your work. A nicely working ZMD and "software installer"
these are our tools, not theres. Should we invent while they implement and
grow? What is that MS chant , embrace, expand and eliminate? I would like to
reiterate that we should be slowing down and making things work so that our
releases are immediately usable in all categories.
"Good enough", is what Microsoft produces, i.e .active directory is a
miserable beast to tame. It's unwieldy, with tools spread out all over the
place, and limited scalability with core functionality left to expensive 3rd
party vendors to add. Windows releases with huge updates available
on "windowsupdate" days\weeks after the release of W2k, Wxp, and who knows
whats up there for VIsta, but it works half way perfect or "good enough".
There is only one thing that they and Ubuntu have that we don't, incredible
amounts of cash to keep QC personnel employed to make sure there uninspired
teams produce more "good enough". That leaves only two weapons in our
arsenal , the incredible brilliance of the opensuse team and patience.
Our seasoned team has and should produce the most immediately usable
distribution on the planet. It is impossible for us who don't code to keep up
with factory as we try and make use of the software we would like to have
daily. As those who don't think twice of hopping out to the command line to
perform tasks that the daily user wouldn't have the foggiest notion of how to
accomplish i.e rpm -U -v -h , overlook fixing bugs that effect us gui
bound "n00bs" i.e. ZMD.
Please reconsider our pace, repackage 10.2, make a few additions and call it
10.2.1 and work patiently to release 10.3 as next years absolute master piece
this team is capable of.
--
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Novell CNE 3\4\5
CLE \ NCE in training.
http://en.opensuse.org/education
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