| Doug Stewart on 20 Jun 2014 11:59:53 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice vs LibreOffice |
Because of certifications and enterprise software agreements. RHEL, for instance, provides a single major rev of a package, regardless of type, for the lifetime of a major release. The new Software Collections channels allow users access to things a BIT closer to state of the art if they so choose. -- Doug Stewart > On Jun 20, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote: >> >> Even my ancient LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 (stock from Lubuntu 12.04) reads/writes >> docx/xlsx. It's buggy, but mostly works. I'm hoping when I get around to >> upgrading to 14.04 (or Mint) and get LibreOffice 4.2.3 it will improve. >> Current on libreoffice.org is 4.2.5... > > It has been ages since I've run an "ordinary" desktop distro. Do they > not just push out updates to packages like LibreOffice as soon as they > come out? > > Gentoo is on 4.2.3.3 on stable and 4.2.4.2 on testing (and you can run > testing packages on a stable system if you want to be more recent on a > particular package - just tell it you want to follow testing for that > package). > > I can see why a binary distro wouldn't want to update something like > glibc without a major release. However, LibreOffice shouldn't really > have any reverse-dependencies. So, I can't see why you'd hold it up > beyond what is necessary for testing (which is why Gentoo stable is > only on 4.2.3.3). > > Rich > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug