> I really like Trisquel. But I am annoyed that updates of important > programs (like Libreoffice) are not available - you only have to add > package sources. It is not that there are no current Linx versions of > the programs - they are only made unavailable by Trisquel. If you > don't search yourself, you won't get security updates or only very > late. That's what I'm criticizing.
While I also wish that Trisquel development moved more quickly, you seem to have a common misconception about LTS distributions. Whereas with proprietary software, the only way to get security updates is usually to use the latest version for the developer (which might introduce unwanted changes or new bugs and/or vulnerabilities), with free software, distro maintainers can backport security patches and other fixes to older versions of the software. This allows for the distro to remain stable while still receiving bug and security fixes. Trisquel 8 is based on Ubuntu 16.04, xenial. As you can see from the changelog,[1] the xenial version of Libreoffice *does* receive frequent updates patching security vulnerabilities, so you do not need to upgrade to a newer version of Libreoffice to get these security fixes. In fact, upgrading to a newer version comes with the risk of introducing new security vulnerabilities that haven't been caught and fixed yet in the newer version. If you require some new feature of Libreoffice then that's a good reason to go out-of-repo, but if you are only concerned with security then you should use the stable package provided by the repo. [1] http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice_5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial10/changelog
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