-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 12-10-22 10:26 AM, [email protected] a écrit : > 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). > > [...]
There are a few reasons for this, most notably the need for stability. I'd rather know that Trisquel 6.0 is *exactly* Ubuntu 12.04 LTS minus non-free stuff - that way commercial support, community help and documentation usually directly applies. Deviate from that and it becomes a whole different thing/problem. > 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 complain about it being old or outdated since it works.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 I couldn't compare to Debian or Fedora, because, even knowing that they use also outdated software (more for debian and less for fedora compared to Ubuntu), the software actually works without any problem !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. Many bugs are fixed in an LTS, even after release, specially at 12.04.1, 12.04.2 etc. so that should improve fixes landing in Trisquel 6 too. The balance between stability/running cutting edge fixes/versions is not easy to find, but the faster you understand the reasons behind the decisions taken resulting in whatever versions you end up with, the faster you can accomodate and plan for that, as in "I value my freedom more than getting the latest laptop" or the opposite. Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez http://trisquel.magicfab.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCFfJAACgkQfUcTXFrypNUdEwCdE4x1q3p7KbMs1Heog+dFPNps ugUAoN5Ql8fxKMMDJKBEw/4qvM3fxpEA =M2SM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
