I know that, but it is quite sad actually, mostly because of all the new
useful features that the new Design from Gimp 2.8 brings... I mean,
LibreOffice being at the 3.5.4 version... why not it is the recommended on
the website so for me there is no problem, and this even knowing that the
3.6.3 is already out. But gimp being still on the 2.6 :s.... Well at least
the kernel is the 3.2, so a lot of bugs have been corrected compared to the
5.5 version of Trisquel :D (I don't like to use the linux-libre kernel
because of the problems with virtualbox... hope they've been solved with this
new version).
But yes, as for the server side this is not a problem, but for the user side,
this could be (somehow) a problem... or maybe it is me with my bad habits of
using (no the latest at the second it's out but almost) almost always the
last, but only considered stable, software for my daily work.
To be honest, I didn't started complaining about the outdated packages in
Ubuntu because of the Rolling experience from Arch Linux, but instead because
of this :
On Ubuntu when you use a software that works, rares at the people that
complain about it being old or outdated since it works. The problem is, when
the package in question don't work well, and you now that a new version is
out to solve the problem, so you mark a bug report, and they solve the
problem and release it.... on the next version of Ubuntu... that will be out
in 5 months... and this happens to me almost every time I bug report
something. Just try to install Ubuntu 12.04, use Unity, and use the Snap
Window on the left or right of the screen, and then return to is original
position... you will see that the size is not the same ! This is a bug, that
have been corrected (if I'm not wrong) on 12.10 but not on 12.04, and I would
like to remember that 12.04 is an LTS version :s... This is my only problem
with this kind of releases... I couldn't compare to Debian or Fedora,
because, even knowing that they use also outdated software (more for debian
and less for fedora compared to Ubuntu), the software actually works without
any problem ! And if something broke, then a correction will be added to the
actual release and not the future one.
Sorry for this long text zs
