Re: [Thinstation-developer] Thinstation 3.0 - a conversation

[Mike E. <thi...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Beaumont, Kevin <
Kev...@pr...> wrote:

> Mike
>
> Yeah, I get the reasoning behind TS 3, and it's a really good idea in
> terms of ongoing ease of development.  It's just that, ya know,
> everybody is using Thinstation for different reasons.
>
> Personally, I've got 15 terminal server Blades running Windows Server
> 2003 R2, which PCs connect to from 11 different locations around the UK
> and Europe with rdesktop.  I guess I'm not alone in that usage.  It
> actually works really well - it just seems whenever I look at the list
> people are confused by all the different trees, which to use, how to
> contribute etc.  It's difficult to focus a community when it takes an
> age to even explain why a version is useful and why it isn't.
>
> I don't have answers to any of this, of course =)  I just know from a
> point of view of whenever HP discontinue a model of their thin client
> hardware I sigh a bit, as I know the new version probably won't work
> fully.
>

Frankly, that's hardly our problem some people are idiots and doesn't know
the difference between production, beta and alpha. If you check out
thinstation.org or the corresponding page on SF, it says clearly "The latest
stable release is version 2.2.2" on the front page near the top. On the SF
download page you can find Thinstation-2.2.2c.tar.gz,
Thinstation-2.3beta2.tar.gz, Thinstation-2.4.0alpha1.tar.bz2 and for TS 3
there even isn't and alpha (as it's pre-alpha). We can't really make it more
clear.

I think your frustration is that there is no real progress on the 2.3 series
with a modern kernel and X and that is shared by everyone - the developers
too. The state of matter is though, that we try to float the project with
the 2.2.2b/c/d, trying on 2.3 and have a hope for a bright future with 3.0.

My estimate is that the combined TS developers time is around one full time
person all together - including removing spam from the lists, web site/TSoM,
answering mailing list questions - and debugging and developing! That's the
simple facts.

Mike


> Kev
>
>
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