<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, <<a href="mailto:Michael.Coll-Barth@verizonwireless.com">Michael.Coll-Barth@verizonwireless.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? </blockquote></div> No, no, and no. If you installed 8.04 and kept updating, you would have the newest version of nothing at all. 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. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own