What to expect with updates

[Thilo Six]

Paul Lemmons wrote the following on 18.05.2007 18:45:

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Hi and welcome

> For example, I
> would like to upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0 and while I am at it a Kernel
> that is 2.6.21 or greater. To do this the "Kubuntu way" do I wait 6
> months for the next rev? I know I can do it outside of apt/adept  'cuz I
> am an old dog but I would like to learn some new tricks :)

Feisty is now "stable" which means NO great changes anymore.
Only security updates and mayor bugfixes drop in every now and then.
There is also "backports"-channel which makes backports from one ubuntu
current dev-release to the *last* stable available.
But the limits for backports are also strict (no source changes are allowed
to come in e.g.).

There are also external repos available that provide packages but those
always made problems during upgrades.

Personally I use the stable release and do not want to mess with those things
and on a spare partition if have the dev-release installed for the sneak
preview. ;)

> Any comments, directions, work-arounds or rants welcome.

bye Thilo
PS. i loved redhat also in the days of 9.0
-- 
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- some friend of mine

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