New Ubuntu/Kubuntu user

[Dan R. Hunt]

On 8/7/05, Scott <sclewin at bmts.com> wrote:
> I apologize if you get this twice.
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I moved to using kubuntu from PClinuxOS recently; I screwed up KDE in
> PCLinuxOS and there new .91 version does not work on my computer.
> Anyway, I have found many things I love about Kubuntu (including the
> superuser integration which allows firefox extensions to work :) , but I
> have noticed that a lot of the programs using the update (Ubuntu update
> and synaptic) are outdated.  I ended up with Kde version  v3.4.0 (when
> there is 3.4.2), only open office 1.3 (1.4 was released a long time
> ago), and many others.  Is this normal for Ubuntu or am I using the
> wrong repositories?

Yes Scott, in order to have a group of reasonably tested software the latest 
software may not be in the repositories yet. Given 6 months you may
find that version number will change.

-- 
Dan Hunt  Saint Brieux Saskatchewan Canada