Firefox 2 on Dapper

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 12:18, Freddy Martinez wrote:
> well, there is the dapper-backports repo. Use at your own risk I'd say.

No.  FF 2.  No OpenOffice 2.1.  Both among the biggest and most important apps 
to me.


>
> On 1/16/07, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:47, Donn wrote:
> > > > The whole point of running a *stable* distribution, like Ubuntu
> >
> > Dapper,
> >
> > > > is that it includes a fixed set of applications.
> > >
> > > I reckon if I was running Edgy (which is unstable, no?) that the
> >
> > versions
> >
> > > of software would also hit a cap when it moves out of cycle. i.e. It
> >
> > will
> >
> > > be the same as Dapper at some point in the future.
> >
> > I'm with you here, Donn.  By the time Edgy is "stable" -- truly, not just
> > theoretically -- its apps will be as out of date as Dapper's.  I chose to
> > stay with Dapper because of LTS.  I just wish the LTS meant that there
> > would
> > be more backports.
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