<OT> ubuntu bad press

[Rashkae]

On 08/25/2011 04:43 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>
> upgraded to the latest STABLE version of an application, especially when
> they are as widely popular as Java and Firefox and possibly Libre
> Office, ...if that is stable yet. I don't think that is too much to
> expect from an LTS version. Again, just my two cents. Ric
>
>


Well, other than Java upgrades can easily break Java applications, which 
might be running on servers that are meant to be stable, and hence use 
LTS for that very reason....

I don't have similar first hand examples of Firefox, but I think the 
same logic can apply... Stable is stable.. in this case, that means, the 
damn thing doesn't change until you change it.  That's the way it's 
supposed to be, in Debian and Ubuntu.

I really hate some of the new Ubuntu direction, but this, at least, is 
something they got right.

And please, don't bother waving your "Slackware from floppy days."... 
You're not the only one.

However, nothing says we can't have our cake and eat it too.  Perhaps 
what you should be asking for, and expecting to get, is a backports repo 
for LTS that keeps popular applications up to date.  That, I think, 
would be a very very good addition to Ubuntu LTS.  Especially in these 
dark days ahead of desktop upheaval.