Quite right. Aside from backports, you can get things like the latest Firefox and LibreOffice on Ubuntu 10.04 thanks to PPAs. To those complaining that the 6 mo

Quite right. Aside from backports, you can get things like the latest Firefox and LibreOffice on Ubuntu 10.04 thanks to PPAs. To those complaining that the 6 month update cycle is a turn off to "normal" users: put an Ubuntu LTS on their computer with a few PPAs to keep specific packages up to date. One advantage of the distro model over the Windows model: you've never had a toolbar installed in your browser or your homepage changed because of a package you installed from a repo, have you? I find the Windows software ecosystem (at least the freeware portion of it) far more annoying than anything package managers do. Talk about unwanted changes to the user's computer.