a general question - what's the difference between the versions?

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/05/2010 03:05 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, 
> <Michael.Coll-Barth at verizonwireless.com 
> <mailto:Michael.Coll-Barth at verizonwireless.com>> wrote:
>
>     If I had installed 8.04 and I kept updating the system, what am I not
>     getting that I would get by downloading and installing from scratch
>     either 9.10 or 10.04 ( OK, in a few days when it comes out of beta )?
>     Would I not have the latest kernel?   Doesn't the update manager keep
>     all of the software I have installed up to date with whatever the
>     authors of that package release?
>
>
>
> No, no, and no.
>
> If you installed 8.04 and kept updating, you would have the newest 
> version of nothing at all.
         That is not true! You will have a fully updated 8.04 which is a 
fine system!


>
> You would have some security patches applied to old versions, that is all.
>
> Once a release is final, no software gets updated unless it has a 
> security problem.
>

     This is not true. You get updates that improve the operation of an 
older version. But yes most, but not all, are security improvments.



> -- 
> John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
>
     Your views and mine are very different.

73 Karl

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