There is an interesting phrase which some one sent me some time back. "all those who pull you out of shit might not always be your friends, and every one who puts you inside shit might not necessarily be your enemies".
Yes you might update what ever software in windows because their approach is different. I think it is a matter of compatibility with things like the desktop, kernel etc. This is because windows has so many unsolved bugs which cause such a lot of problem to windows users and still due to lack of awareness they still use that buggy version, afterall no alternative. GNU/linux has bugs too but they get fixt often and on a rapid pace. It might not happen now but there might be some kind of incompatibility which will surface with new upgraded software in windows as well. In case of things like ubuntu, the speed at which updates happen are very very fast and the enhancements don't sound like a rotton process like in windows. This demands major releases perhaps every 6 months. And by the way it is not that things can be upgraded in gnu/linux, it is just the method we aught to know. And it is not windows a winner here but openoffice which respects the user's freedom. they have given deb and rpm packages for their release. how you do with your respective distro is to be asked at the right places like the irc channel, or the mailing list. happy hacking. Krishnakant. On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 21:51 +0530, Rony wrote: > Hello, > > Some time back I had put up a challenge to the list to install Open > Office 3 in Ubuntu 8.04 and looks like no one has been able to do that. > Well in Windows XP you simply uninstall the older Open Office version > and install the latest version. You could even install OOo3 over the > older 2.x version. So on _this_ point I declare Windows XP the winner. ;-) > > On Saturday I have to remove Ubuntu 8.04 from 5 machines and install > Ubuntu 9.04 simply because upgrading Open Office is not possible in Linux. > > > -- > Regards, > > Rony. > > GNU/Linux ! > No Viruses > No Spyware > Only Freedom. > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
