Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Rich Freeman 
<r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> > 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.

On 06/20/2014 03:38 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> I believe LTS (aka RHEL For Ubuntu) *does* do something similar (version
> lock), while for mainstream Ubuntu releases, since they essentially create
> abandonware every 6 months, I don't think it's worth the time trying to get
> it running on the current release -- just target the next one.

Yeah, I always forget to mention I only run LTS (Long Term Support) 
versions.  For me, every 2 years is quite enough to deal with major OS 
upgrades.  The down-side is as discussed: the major packages age...  You 
can sometimes work around that to some extent by adding various repos 
and PPAs, but I haven't bothered.

Later,
JP
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