New Ubuntu/Kubuntu user

[Scott]

Hi,

    I moved to using kubuntu from PClinuxOS recently; I screwed up KDE
in PCLinuxOS and there new .91 version does not work on my computer.
Anyway, I have found many things I love about Kubuntu (including the
superuser integration which allows firefox extensions to work :), but I
have noticed that a lot of the programs using the update (Ubuntu update
and synaptic) are outdated.  I ended up with Kde version  v3.4.0 (when
there is 3.4.2), only open office 1.3 (1.4 was released a long time
ago), and many others.  Is this normal for Ubuntu or am I using the
wrong repositories?

Thank you for your time.

-- 
Your Friend,
Scott

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