Rich Freeman on 20 Jun 2014 12:10:29 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice vs LibreOffice


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'll certainly buy that for distros that do the backporting thing.  I
just wasn't sure why a distro like Mint, or Ubuntu would do it that
way.

Rich
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