ubuntu users openion required

[Scott]

Morgan Greywolf wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:00 -0700, Scott wrote:
>> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>> >> I am planning to create a downlodable tools site for debian and ubuntu
>> >> users.I want to know exactly what type of tools or softwares ubuntu users
>> >> are looking for.If any one is having any ideas or tools name to suggest most
>> >> welcome.Just i want to make more ubuntu and debian users feel like one place
>> >> to download all the tools
>> >>
>> >> Thank you very much for you time
>> > 
>> > I generally use packages from the 15000+ available from the ubuntu repositories.
>> > 
>> > The only ones I had to manually install in recent months at one time
>> > or another were packages like Java 1.5, Flash (the recently updated
>> > release), penguintv, skype and gizmo.
>> 
>> There' always the newer versions some of the 15000+ in the Ubuntu 
>> repositories.  Those would be nice to find packaged someplace.
> 
> There are sites along the lines of 'Break my Gentoo', or whatever, that
> feature the absolute newest versions of everything before they've been
> tested and integrated into the distribution in the proper manner as set
> forth by the distro's creators.
> 
> A 'Break my Ubuntu' site would be interesting, for sure.  One of the
> things though that I like about Ubuntu is that the repositories aren't
> all that far behind what's out there... One of the reason Ubuntu is such
> a well-polished distro, though, is that people are taking the time to
> carefully integrate new packages into the system so that everything fits
> well together and different components have the right features compiled
> in to fit with the other pieces of the system without breaking
> compatibility.  Such things are difficult, as anyone who has done an LFS
> system can tell you. ;)

BMU does exist. --->>

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreakMyUbuntu

Most of the older packages I'm speaking of are just neglected and are in 
Universe.  Unfortunately I can't recall anything more specific than that 
at the moment.  But if you go to the various places where one can make 
package requests (revu, backports, etc) you'll find a number of requests 
for packages that already exist (typically in Universe) but are newer 
(often times much newer) than what's already in the Ubuntu repository.

Off the top of my head, my recent problem was with VLC (which for the 
time being I've given up on, since I'll be reformatting soon).

-- 
Scott
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