Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice over Oracle's OpenOffice

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, January 24, 2011 11:29 PM, Samuel Thurston wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:19 AM, 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.
>>
>
> Perhaps my perception is wrong, but isn't the *point* of an LTS
> release that the available features don't change?   This way you have
> a stable environment suitable for production that is unlikely to
> break.  That was my understanding anyway.  The official Ubuntu
> explanation of LTS is pretty clear, LTS is for security/bugfixes for 3
> years.  Want new software, get the new release.

There is an official explanation of that? I must have missed it then. I 
guess I cannot gripe about LTS being security/bugfixes then. Oh wait, I 
can! Where is the bug fix for Hardy with regards to Yahoo! Messenger 
accounts? Great job for a desktop oriented distro. There is even a patch 
for kopete but no, they would not fix that bug.


>
> I should also point out that launchpad has a project for managing
> uptake in the lucid-backports repo, here:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid-backports
>
> and I see no requests for libreoffice in the bugs.  Maybe try voicing
> your disappointment there?
>

Backports meaning something from a later release? I guess I cannot ask 
for Libreoffice until that makes it into a release...