On 08/28/2011 11:27 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 08:47:28PM -0400, TJ wrote in
<[email protected]>:
As I complete my brand-new production install of Mageia 1, I'm
overjoyed to see that Firefox has been updated to version 6. Too bad
they didn't do the same with Thunderbird...
Oh, well. At least the vendor's package is easy to install.
For firefox, the new release claims to offer some fixes for security
issues while the release packaged has been EOL'ed by Mozilla, meaning no
security fixes will be made to those older versions anymore.
With Thunderbird, they have been less clear and the version released
with Mageia is still supported, sort of. Because of this, and for as
long as this holds, that release will be included with Mageia 1, though
newer versions might well appear in the backports section.
I'm going to hope that Mageia's backports have a better track record for
me than Mandriva's has. A backport of Firefox 3.6 disabled the help
system for Gnucash, just as I was in the middle of trying to learn how
to use it, and a backported hplip was a disaster with my printers. To be
fair, a backported Gimp upgrade worked just fine, as did a recent
VirtualBox. Even so, that's only a 50% success rate, not particularly
encouraging.
TJ
