<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 03/27/2010 08:34 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:872ebc901003271934k7929618bgb71869f2db4c75ea@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">The latest version of Firefox is 3.6.2 and all Ubuntu has is 3.5; same thing with Open Office -- the latest version is 3.2 but Ubuntu only has 3.1. Where can I find information on how to install (compile?) the latest programs into the Linux OS? (seeing as the Ubuntu variants don't have the ability to get updates) And please don't tell me to download 10.04; I have absolutely NO INTENTION of downloading that version until May or June at the earliest! -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a> & <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.openoffice.org">http://www.openoffice.org</a> (Nathan Bahn) </blockquote> The latest Word was changed a tiny bit to make it harder for Open Office. But Power Point is done better in Open Office than in Windows! I get several power points a day and have had zero problems so far. 73 Karl </body> </html>