Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions without version upgrades

[Scott Budihas <budihas@gmail.com>]

JP,

Have you tried the PPAs for some of those packages?

https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable

https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/thunderbird-stable

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa

for LibreOffice on Lucid you have to remove OpenOffice packages

https://launchpad.net/~liferea/+archive/ppa


I have been using these (except liferea) with no issues. You get 
security updates too. There are many other PPAs out there but these are 
by the same packaging teams that handle the newer releases so I am 
assuming these are safe.

Enjoy.

Scott



On 12/17/2011 06:58 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> > 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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