View Poll Results: What would be a " best release strategy" for Knoppix
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Once a week
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Open letter to Mr. Klaus Knopper
Today you released another version of your acclaimed Knoppix live cd, the third new release in just a few weeks (or maybe even 4, I'm loosing count).
I feel you're not really doing anyone a big service like this, least of all the universities that so kindly have offered to mirror the Knoppix iso's.
In my perception the current release speed will also do other damage: people might start wondering if there's maybe little attention for bugfixing before releases for one, and if this release flurry would be aimed at keeping Knoppix high on the news sections of the best visited Linux websites, and getting reviews all the time, I'm afraid that over time this will backfire as well.
Users and webmasters alike will possibly tire of mr. Knoppers many releases, most of those not changing anything substantial at all in the product.
And I must admit that this isn't something I would like to see happening to Knoppix. It's a great live CD, and I guess that many people try to install Knoppix on their harddisk as well. It does a great job in promoting Linux, and I really feel Knoppix can make a difference for Linux as an instrument to get Joe Average to look at Linux for an alternative to his Windows box.
So please mr. Knopper (if you read this forum at all), rethink your release flurry tactics, and go back to a reasonable release calendar.
With one release every three months or so you'd still beat each and every distro out there in terms of being "bleeding edge" , and your releases would attract far more attention then they do now.
A few final thoughts: if you really intend to further the "Linux Case" with your Knoppix product, then I feel you would be wise to put a little effort into making Knoppix easier to install to harddisk, with some nice and solid gui installer that offers some choice to the user, and if you really want to "corner the market" then some upgrade utility for users to upgrade their Knoppix installation from a knoppix repository would be an awesome tool.
kind regards
Paul V
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