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There are a lot fewer factors in shipping a new firefox for OS X than there are for Linux. On OS X, for the most part, all of the important dynamic libraries ar
by meastham 16y ago
There are a lot fewer factors in shipping a new firefox for OS X than there are for Linux. On OS X, for the most part, all of the important dynamic libraries are frozen at a single or at one of a small number of versions, everybody is either ia32 or amd64, there aren't distro patches applied to things, there isn't the wide array of Desktop Environment configurations that there is in other Unixes, etc, etc. This isn't to say that rolling releases aren't possible; it's just trickier for Linux distros.
Also, you have to update the glibc sometime.
- nailer 16y agoUbuntu is primarily ia32 or amd64 too - there are no PPC, MIPS etc builds on http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/alternative-download http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/alternative-downloa.... The issue stopping Firefox releases for Ubuntu is that AFAICT Firefox don't bother packaging their app for Ubuntu and Ubuntu wait six months to do their own packaging. Indeed, you have to update to a major version of glibc every few years, but I imaging most people's hardware will die first.