New Ubuntu/Kubuntu user

[Andy Choens]

> 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 and synaptic) are outdated.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?

Look at:
http://www.kubuntu.org/hoary-kde-342.php

There are a whole list of repositories you can use to get thelatest
and greatest KDE.  I don't know of any wildly up-to-date repos of OOo,
but I use koffice, so I'm quite happy with the repos listed in the
above page.

Whenever KDE comes out with a new point release, there will seem to
updated Kubuntu packages.  OOo, etc. don't seem to earn the same
response from the developers, which makes sense to me since it is
supposed to be a KDE-centric "distribution".

If you check the Ubuntu forums there have been some discussions about
converting the supplied OOo rpms into debs.  Somebody wrote a script
that will do most of the work for you, but I've never used it.  Note: 
this is going to get you a BETA version of OOo, not a recent stable
release.  Although, OOo BETAS were very stable back in the pre-1.0
days in my experience.

I played around with OOo 2, and it's going to be nice, but I'm trying
to stay far away from the battle that's going to erupt in the GNOME
camp.  Speaking of this, I think I'll go and start a major flamewar on
the Ubuntu list.  This should be interesting.

Peace

--andy