Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice over Oracle's OpenOffice

[David Sanders]

On 24 January 2011 14:38, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Monday, January 24, 2011 07:23 PM, David Sanders wrote:
>>
>> On 24 January 2011 11:19, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday, January 24, 2011 02:37 PM, Samuel Thurston wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Christopher Chan
>>>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is not Lucid a Long Term Support release? I demand my LibreOffice for
>>>>> Lucid!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don't get used to having your demands met, but...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/new-ppa-makes-installing-libreoffice-on-ubuntu-easy/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ha! If I was getting my expectations met, I would not be taking jabs at
>>> that
>>> LTS/Long Term Support moniker.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu is probably the only distro where a 'supported' release only gets
>>> token security updates. Give me a break.
>>>
>> Eh? RHEL is exactly the same. In fact it's extremely rare for *any*
>> base software to be updated apart from security updates in RHEL (and
>> by definition CentOS).
>
> Excuse me but both RHEL4/Centos 4 and RHEL5/Centos 5 have had updates to
> base software and more and even backports to the kernels. They are NOT the
> same. To put Ubuntu on the same level of RHEL is an insult to the
> intelligence of system administrators and to the level of work and quality
> assurance put into RHEL.
>
>
>>
>> The big benefit of Ubuntu is that if you don't want the super-stable
>> version you can just roll-up every 6 months to the latest version of
>> everything. If you want bleeding-edge you can use Gentoo, and kiss
>> your evenings goodbye ;-)
>>
>
> Bah, you call that the big benefit of Ubuntu? One can do almost the same
> with Fedora. Depending on what angle you are taking, things are the same
> (server environments) or better with Ubuntu (desktop environments).
>
> In any case, both models used by Redhat and Canonical are just crap. I
> thought Shuttleworth saw the light when rolling updates were mentioned. Too
> bad that proved to be false. Stuff like Libreoffice can be put on a rolling
> updates repo.
>
Use a PPA. If that's distasteful then you'll just have to roll your
own. As a developer personally I find the idea of supporting
moving-target releases of software stomach-cramp inducing, and hope to
hell that the Ubuntu devs don't do it.