I really beg to differ on this one. If you're an Ubuntu user who is behind only one distro (quantal) you're stuck on version 0.6.2 with no updates since 2012 (yes, that means on May 15th you'll be lost). For those still on Debian Squeeze (ie barely out of date), you get 0.3.24! Yes, 0.3.24 including every issue we've fixed since (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures) and bitcoin is not available in wheezy.
Those are just the two I bothered to look up, but, additionally, nearly every distro I know of links bitcoin against libdb5.1 (latest Ubuntu, Arch, etc) which means wallets run once with those packages will never be usable an "official" Bitcoin build ever again. I can't necessarily fault them for this since 4.8 is quite old, but its certainly not "doing mostly a pretty good job" Matt On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 23:48 -0500, Petr Praus wrote: > I think it's worth noting that quite a large portion of Linux users > probably get the mainline Bitcoin client from the packages. I think > Bitcoin package maintainers are doing mostly a pretty good job :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
