Backports? Just say no! [Was: I don't want to beat this > to death, but...]

[Eamonn Sullivan]

> > some people want all the stability of the release
> > version and all the software of the unstable version.
> 
> To wildly misquote a famous dead guy: "Those who would trade stability
> for the bleeding edge deserve neither."
> 
> If 'someone' wants all the stability of the release version, they should
> use it. If they want all the bleeding edge software in the development
> branch, they should use it.
> 
> Releases are only six months apart!

I wasn't going to jump into this, but I will now. Six months is a long
time to wait to check a bank account. And this old version is more of
an annoyance because several reviews of Ubuntu on the several sites
*specifically* mention firefox 1.0PR (Do a google search. I'm guessing
because it was reverted at the last minute). How many firefox
extensions for 0.9.3 are still being maintained? How many new ones are
coming out? There are several, commonly-used features that differ
significantly. I'd think the average user -- which I thought was the
target of this dist -- might notice.

I'm not a new linux user. I've been using it since version
0.9something, for 10 years. I'm used to dealing with issues
(non-existent, on this setup). Belittling people for wanting to use a
current app, one in which most users will spend 90 percent of their,
isn't helpful. Just tell them to install it in /usr/local/bin and that
it isn't supported. Fine.

Apologies if this has been hashed over numerous times. I'm new and
can't easily find a way to search the list archives.