New Ubuntu/Kubuntu user

[Corey Burger]

On 8/7/05, Dan R. Hunt <dan.r.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/7/05, Scott <sclewin at bmts.com> wrote:
> > I apologize if you get this twice.
> >
> > 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 and synaptic) are outdated.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?

Ubuntu freezes the stable release and does not put new versions of
software into it. This is a policy it adopted from Debian. That being
said, there are backports for some new software.

The next version of (K)Ubuntu is due in Oct 2005.

Corey