Il 10/10/2010 14:14, [email protected] ha scritto:
Well, Ubuntu 10.10 came out today [ not RC version ]. Included with it, finally, is OOo version 3.2.1 It would be nice if they [ Ubuntu and Debian ] would update OOo in their repositories more often than every 6 months. Yes, I know that people can download OOo in .deb and install it in a way that will deal with the Applications/Menu problems that I keep having. I just have to remember where I put that paper [file] that contains the instructions to do so. Yet, I wonder why when a major software package like OOo comes out with an update, or even an upgrade, that it takes so long for it to appear in the repositories. Other open-source packages are updated in the Ubuntu/Debian repositories and are seen in the daily/weekly checks with the Update Manager, but not OOo. I know that this type of question should be posted to an Ubuntu forum, which I have but with no answers in return, but here are the people who are most affected by that lack of updating, the OOo users running Ubuntu/Debian. I wonder if a large number of us Ubuntu/Debian users who use OOo as our main, or only, office package get together and "ask real nicely", would something be done to solve the problem? There is a movement to make Ubuntu the OS that will compete with Windows as the OEM installed operating system. The movement wants to make a Linux OS that will run as easy as Windows [ to the general public use to Windows ] and make installing and upgrading software packages as easy as Windows users expect it to be. Maybe if the users of the #1 MS Office replacement get together and somehow get Ubuntu/Debian to add OOo updates and upgrades to their daily/weekly repository updating system, instead of waiting for their six month OS update/upgrade schedule. Well, it is time to get Ubuntu 10.10 on all my non-Windows systems.
I think this delay in including the latest version of big software packages like OOo has something to do with making sure that it plays nice with the software ecosystem that a distro is. Also, I'm not 100% sure but I think Ubuntu also applies some modifications to the vanilla OOo distrib., so I guess every time a major version of OOo comes out they first have to apply their mods to it, then test is and only then can they add to the official repos.
All this takes time, and a new distro is due every six months, so... Just a speculation... -- Marcello Romani --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
