Ubuntu updates
2006-12-28-Thursday | Computer
So, there is an article on SlashDot titled Is Ubuntu a Serious Desktop
Contender? There is also a blog about it
here.
Basically, the whole point of the question is "Can Canonical support 6.06 LTS (Dapper) for 5 years if they cannot immediately update Firefox like Red Hat did?" Well, personally, I don't see that as the most critical thing. Rather yet, they've had another issue that makes one of the best opensource applications unusable on Edgy (6.10). Edgy is newer than Dapper and it took almost three months for this issue to be fixed. If Firefox wasn't updated immediately, I can't really see that as the most critical problem.
Another interesting thing, In the blog linked above, Daniel writes: "Personally I sidetrack the whole issue by always using the Firefox and Thunderbird from mozilla.org on my Dapper computer, but that method bring some pros and cons." I feel that this is just more proof that we need a better way to install software under Linux.
Basically, the whole point of the question is "Can Canonical support 6.06 LTS (Dapper) for 5 years if they cannot immediately update Firefox like Red Hat did?" Well, personally, I don't see that as the most critical thing. Rather yet, they've had another issue that makes one of the best opensource applications unusable on Edgy (6.10). Edgy is newer than Dapper and it took almost three months for this issue to be fixed. If Firefox wasn't updated immediately, I can't really see that as the most critical problem.
Another interesting thing, In the blog linked above, Daniel writes: "Personally I sidetrack the whole issue by always using the Firefox and Thunderbird from mozilla.org on my Dapper computer, but that method bring some pros and cons." I feel that this is just more proof that we need a better way to install software under Linux.
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