Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions without version upgrades

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:26:40 -0500
> From: Rich Freeman<r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
>
> Out of curiosity - where do you feel that most?  I noticed that 10.04
> is up to chromium 15, which isn't too bad since they only stabilized
> 16 a few days ago.

Liferea (RSS reader), Firefox (3.6.24 mixed feeling there, I hate tabs 
on top, but I know that's configurable), T-Bird (3.1.15), OOo (3.2.0), 
etc.  Just the usual productivity apps.

I can't tell you how much I love *not* having to deal with app-updaters 
or manual stuff like Windows.  Package management systems (esp. 
APT+policies) rule.  This is the flip side (for binary ones), but a more 
sane release schedule would help, it seems to me.

...
> I imagine they're able to keep apps more current if they are more
> desktop-oriented or tend not to be dependencies.  However, having not
> really used it I'd be curious as to where they find the balance.

That's not how I understand it, but I might be wrong.  AFAIK, they pick 
the release and basically stick to it for LTS, backporting security 
fixes as needed.  But as you note, certain apps like Chromium are just 
too fast for that so they've been making accommodations.

I dunno, it's not a simple problem.  I just know it's getting to be a 
problem for me.

Later,
JP
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