How Fedora chose me

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 04:48 PM, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> Davide wrote:
>
> This said, it seems that Debian sometimes reacts faster than Fedora.
> Whereas LiVES is still, as far as I know, a bug report/wishlist in Fedora,
> the other distro has it included for the next release:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/lives
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/lives
>

Wanted to remind of some counter examples,
* Xubuntu 9.04 @ work:
	Firefox 3.0
	Thunderbird 2.0
	Pidgin 2.5.5 (supports only IMs)
	Emacs 22.2
* Fedora 11 @ home:
	Firefox 3.5.3
	Thunderbird 3.0b3
	Pidgin 2.6.2 (with audio/video support)
	Emacs 23.1

I find it very inconvenient to use the latest version of most apps on 
Ubuntu. You either have to use some buggy package from universe or use a 
PPA package.

PS: A (not-so-expert) friend recently switched to F11 just to use the 
latest pidgin :-p

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.