Re: Firefox 3.5
Seems to me you haven't quite grasped the release policy for ubuntu. Ubuntu distribution releases are stable, only bug/security fixes (and minor upgrades) are made available after a release for a release version. This makes sure users can keep upgrading their release version without fear of regressions (often associated with major version upgrades). This is very important to many people, including corporate installations.
Of course, ubuntu often makes newer software available for stable releases as well (via backports repository, ppas etc), for those people that explicitly want to install newer stuff and can accept the possibility of breakage/regressions.
The fact that mozilla means 3.5 as an upgrade to 3, is not relevant in this regard...it's still a major upgrade...with regressions (kde4 is meant to be an upgrade to kde3, as well, but no one would suggest automatically replacing kde3 with kde4 on a stable ubuntu release).
And what I really don't understand why the big fuss about it, as you can still install 3.5 if you want to. And if one doesn't like ubuntu's release policy, you can always go with a rolling-release distribution (like sidux or arch).
Seems to me you haven't quite grasped the release policy for ubuntu. Ubuntu distribution releases are stable, only bug/security fixes (and minor upgrades) are made available after a release for a release version. This makes sure users can keep upgrading their release version without fear of regressions (often associated with major version upgrades). This is very important to many people, including corporate installations.
Of course, ubuntu often makes newer software available for stable releases as well (via backports repository, ppas etc), for those people that explicitly want to install newer stuff and can accept the possibility of breakage/regressions.
The fact that mozilla means 3.5 as an upgrade to 3, is not relevant in this regard...it's still a major upgrade...with regressions (kde4 is meant to be an upgrade to kde3, as well, but no one would suggest automatically replacing kde3 with kde4 on a stable ubuntu release).
And what I really don't understand why the big fuss about it, as you can still install 3.5 if you want to. And if one doesn't like ubuntu's release policy, you can always go with a rolling-release distribution (like sidux or arch).
Comment