I understand RunRev working with Ubuntu as "a standard". However, I think Peter makes some very good points concerning why Debian should be the reference for getting things working.
I stopped my software update subscription for Rev some 6 months ago, after about 7 years of continuous subscription. When RunRev decide to deliver a RevBrowser component for Linux, I'll start again. Bernard On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Peter Alcibiades <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is, every six months we have a new Ubuntu. Rather less often we > have a new Fedora. The old release is not being updated in the meantime > (understandably), you are only getting security updates. It is not a > rolling release distro. > > So, if you say you have certified, which means tested, against your > reference distro, and its Ubuntu, and you have tweaked it so everything > works, OK, which Ubuntu? Here are some dates: > > 8.04.................. .2008-04-24 (we are now on 8.04.4 I think) > 8.10 ...................2008-10-30 (we now seem to be on 8.10.3) > 9.10....................2009-10-29 (seems not to have had later versions) > > 10.04 is now in Beta so will be out shortly > > You cannot 'standardize on Ubuntu' or use it as a reference distro. Its > meaningless. You have to specify a release. The Ubuntus out there in the > market are not one release, they are a mixed lot of generations and updates, > and they are changing all the time. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
