[Linux4christians] WHY FOSS IS STILL SO UNUSABLE

[Joel Mclaughlin]

I agree.  They should try and get things like Firefox, Thunderbird and Open
Office out ASAP.



On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Pastor David <pastordavid at bibleseven.com>wrote:

> This is a Linux-distro specific problem - it is not true
> for all distros.
>
> In Puppy Linux you just ask on the Forum and someone will
> whip up a .PET which autoloads the updated app.
>
> I am guessing that is true for other distros as well.
>
> Perhaps the Linux community needs to agitate for a
> shorter response time to new releases of critical apps?
>
>  Joel Mclaughlin wrote:
>> Also, the ONE place that Windows has it over Linux on alot of counts is
>> software installation.  For example, if a new version of Firefox comes out,
>> you are either going to be compiling it yourself or waiting for the repo's
>> to get it and that's likely not going to happen if the browser was released
>> after the most current distro release.  One other possibility may be getting
>> a deb from getdebs.net <http://getdebs.net> or something similar.
>>
>
>
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