Why is it that distros brag about coming out with the latest Firefox, when it’s not even the latest?
Suse’s release of RC1 Distrowatch description says they added Firefox 32.
Firefox 33 just came out!
But I know it is a hard situation to keep up with FireFux because they sometimes release new
browsers weekly!
Instead of releasing news about the latest browser, why don’t you create some kind of system
that lets users know that Firefox will be consistenly updated as the new releases become available?
Why does the Linux OS need to lag behind Winblows? In order to beat the competition, you need to
stay Ahead of them.
I might point out you can always instal the latest No one stops you there is even a Mozilla repo that has the latest within days of the release. You can also download the daily codes and compile them yourself. The “official” repos tend to be a little conservative and try to put out known stable code. Also for most packages you don’t get the newest you get patches/fixes to the version that ships. If you want the cutting edge latest you must install yourself you don’t get it as a automatic update. Some people like stability.
When you ride the cutting edge be prepared to bleed!! >:)
> Instead of releasing news about the latest browser, why don’t you create
> some kind of system
> that lets users know that Firefox will be consistenly updated as the new
> releases become available?
How long have you been using Linux? A day? Don’t you know that we do
have such a system? :-/
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Right, and it is system-wide for all packages.
On Windows every program has to implement this itself.
And openSUSE does release the latest Firefox version through the standard updates.
Ok, it lags behind the official release a few days, but the maintainence process (packaging the new version, build packages, testing the packages) takes its time. So what?
Btw, at the time when openSUSE 13.2 RC1 was release, Firefox 32 was the latest version.
So how could it include anything newer?
On 2014-10-15 21:46, wolfi323 wrote:
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> robin_listas;2669606 Wrote:
>> On 2014-10-15 17:06, AlliedForces wrote:
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>>> Instead of releasing news about the latest browser, why don’t you create some kind of system
>>> that lets users know that Firefox will be consistenly updated as the new releases become available?
>>
>> How long have you been using Linux? A day? Don’t you know that we do
>> have such a system? :-/
>>
> Right, and it is system-wide for all packages.
> On Windows every program has to implement this itself.
Right.
And in Linux, you can also update Firefox straight from the developers.
I believe there is also a nightly build, if you wish.
It stands to reason that the distributions need some days to take the
package when released upstream, verify, adapt, and prepare it, then
distribute it via the openSUSE update channel. Microsoft, if they
distributed Firefox, which they don’t, would do the same: take their time.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Firefox 33.0 isn’t the cutting edge. It is the latest release from Mozilla. Beta, Aurora and Nightly are the cutting edge versions.
Why should a user need to add the Open Build Service repo to get Firefox 33.0, Thunderbird 31.2.0 and SeaMonkey 2.30 when they should be in the update repo for security reasons. >:(
Yes, and it will be released as standard update in a few days. A user does not need to add the Open Build Service repo to get them.
That was exactly my point.