Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:

> On 10/08/2013 06:53 PM, James Knott wrote:
> > Paul wrote:
> > > There is nothing inherent in linux that makes it harder (barring the
> > > sheer number of distros; see below), it depends purely on how much
> > > effort the developers are willing to go to for any particular linux
> > > distro.
> > Don't forget, LO is included in many distros.  It might not be the
> > absolute latest, but it would be farily recent.
>
> Well if you use Ubuntu's LTS [long term support] OS you upgrade the OS
> every two years.  There is a lot of changes in LO over even a year's
> worth of time, let alone two.

so sounds like you should look into a 'rolling release' like LMDE or 
Linux Mint Debian Edition or Manjaro.

my systems desperately need updating so I guess I feel little need to 
be up2date.

I don't know how these releases treat LO; in this discussion we need 
to be careful not to confuse the difficulties of upgrading LO with 
supposed difficulties of upgrading the operating system.

F.

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Felmon Davis

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                -- Samuel Johnson


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