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<font face="Arial">I've got very limited knowledge of the inner
workings of (k)ubuntu but wasn't at all keen to upgrade from Edgy to
Feisty after a fiasco I had trying to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy.
That was until upgrading to Feisty happened almost accidentally after I
enabled a repository for something else. Up popped a GUI upgrading
tool out of nowhere and I have to be honest with you, upgrading was as
easy as falling off a log, no knowledge of Linux required - and that's
coming from a sceptic!"<br>
<br>
If it's that easy these days, why not just keep up with the latest
version of the OS if you want the latest of the programs running on it?<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jeffhunt90@gmail.com">jeffhunt90@gmail.com</a> wrote:
<blockquote cite="midb2e52c960705211502h4db2662bi8897e1a47b6a200@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">I thought I was a pretty conservative bloke, but you folks
are making me feel positively innovative. I gave up on Edgy because its
dialup was shonky and I gave up on Feisty because I couldn't get it
into anything - (I think that was hardware faults, but it wasn't worth
the effort).
<br>
Under the impression that I was supposed to be keeping up to date I
have been getting new software whenever I felt the need and installing
it, usually off a binary.<br>
Apart from destroying hundreds of hours of family genealogy when I
upgraded Gramps ( its ok I recovered on another machine) I have never
had a problem. Yesterday I wasted hours finding a shell script to do
the deed of getting Firefox updated so I could view SVG graphics. It
now works.
<br>
If I can do these things with greater than 95% success rate, surely
someone with access to source code and inside knowledge can compile
something like Firefox, check it doesn't transgress and put it into the
Ubuntu 6.06 repository.<br>
<br>
I do feel that the 'big two' Firefox and Open Office should be being
updated even if there has to be a new category called somehting like
'stable we think' (a bit stable?) (not too unstable?)
<br>
Cheers.<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jethro Carr</b> <<a href="mailto:jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com">jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On
Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:06 +1200, Pete Black wrote:<br>
> Its better to simply understand this, than to be given a bunch of<br>
> alternatives like 'maintain newer versions of packages by compiling<br>
> yourself', which very few people really enjoy doing. Basically, if
<br>
> you like Ubuntu, but want new software, and aren't prepared to futz<br>
> around with apt.conf entries, then upgrade to the newer releases<br>
> regularly. This might potentially (though it seems to be less
likely
<br>
> with each release - update quality is improving noticeably) break<br>
> your system, but if you're going to be using Ubuntu long term, its<br>
> best to wrestle with the beast and get somewhat comfortable with
this
<br>
> process. LTS is not a good option unless you want to use the
packages<br>
> delivered with the release long term.<br>
<br>
I would state that many users actually want to use their computers long<br>
term! :-)<br>
<br>
Even I don't upgrade every 6 months, because if I have all the features<br>
I need, why upgrade?<br>
<br>
If you want the latest and greatest of everything, then sure, go and<br>
upgrade. But Ubuntu LTS is an excellent choice for users wanting a
<br>
stable system that they don't need to upgrade for a few years.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Jethro Carr<br>
<br>
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</a><br>
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