Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice over Oracle's OpenOffice

[David Sanders]

On 24 January 2011 11:19, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Monday, January 24, 2011 02:37 PM, Samuel Thurston wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Is not Lucid a Long Term Support release? I demand my LibreOffice for
>>> Lucid!
>>>
>>
>> Don't get used to having your demands met, but...
>>
>>
>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/new-ppa-makes-installing-libreoffice-on-ubuntu-easy/
>>
>
> Ha! If I was getting my expectations met, I would not be taking jabs at that
> LTS/Long Term Support moniker.
>
> Ubuntu is probably the only distro where a 'supported' release only gets
> token security updates. Give me a break.
>
Eh? RHEL is exactly the same. In fact it's extremely rare for *any*
base software to be updated apart from security updates in RHEL (and
by definition CentOS).

The big benefit of Ubuntu is that if you don't want the super-stable
version you can just roll-up every 6 months to the latest version of
everything. If you want bleeding-edge you can use Gentoo, and kiss
your evenings goodbye ;-)