Right. That's exactly why they shipped FF3 Beta. That way they can maintain the Firefox 3 line in the repos. If they shipped with FF 2, we'd be stuck with that until a new distro comes out since they won't go up a version between distros.
- Justin -----Original Message----- From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Cummings Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Hardy! Well, you probably know a lot more about this than I do, but I thought the policy was that the default enable repositories (gusty, gusty-updates, gusty-security) only changed software to fix serious bugs and security problems, never just to get a newer version. Regards, Nick brian raszap wrote: > i'm sure they'll update to the release version once its released > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > As someone mentioned on /. when this came up, there's also a firefox 2 > package available from apt, so you certainly have the option to go > with > that if you'd rather. When the Firefox 3 release comes out I'm sure > that will be available from backports, although you're not guaranteed > the same timely bug and security fixes with those. > > Regards, > > Nick > > brian raszap wrote: > > yes. its a Long Term Support version. they must ship things that > will > > be supported in 3 to 5 years from now. firefox two doesnt qualify, > > firefox 3 beta 5 does. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Elliott Sprehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > > > They're seriously shipping a Beta version of Firefox in release > > versions of Ubuntu? Wow. > > > > On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Ed Kohlwey wrote: > > > > I've been running Hardy for about a month, and I've > followed the > > upgrades pretty closely. I'm quite happy with it. A > number of > > minor bugs > > were fixed with my ACPI, and theres numerous application > > upgrades that > > are nice (Firefox 3, Gnome, etc.). The new default theme is > > also more > > vibrant... not that you can't change them, but it's nice to > > see that > > kind of attention to detail. > > > > IMHO, worth the upgrade. > > > > > > >
