On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:34, Web Kracked wrote:

> OK, tell me more about where to find this repository?

Wherever you download your Sun build of OOo.

> Or should I make them all the same version.

That is entirely up to you.

What features do you need?
What features do you use?

Sometimes features are removed from OOo.  If one of those features is
something you find useful, you may  want to keep a version with those
features, on one or two systems.

> What is Mono?

A programming platform that  Microsoft has more or less promised to
sue users for using, unless they have paid the Danegeld.

>>Most up-to-date is a matter of how one defines that term.

> How would you define this and where would you look for the latest non-RC 
> versions?  Ubuntu and Windows?

Personally,  I think that getting the most recent version ---
regardless of how one defines that term --- purely because it is the
most recent version, is absurd.

Upgrade versions only  when the new version has a feature that you
need, and will use, and others have thoroughly tested it out.

> Also any suggestions for Linux distros I can test with a "Live CD" to see 
> which one works the best for my HP Pavilion zv6123 AMD64 Athlon laptop?

Download and burn the live ISO images for the first hundred listings
at http://distrowatch.com/

Use the first fifty purely to establish a baseline.  A means of
evaluating the performance on various parameters that are of
importance to you.  None of these distros will be your "final cut".
The first distro whose performance exceeds the best in that first 50,
is the distro that will, statistically speaking, work best for you.
(If you want to argue that 25, or 33 is equally suitable, then use
that, but be fully  cognizant of the issues involved in creating a
base line, using a lower number of samples.)

jonathon
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