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>There is no need to manually update your software unless it is one of those rare things that does not deal with the repo manager. That's not quite true. Ubunt
by quanticle 12y ago
>There is no need to manually update your software unless it is one of those rare things that does not deal with the repo manager.
That's not quite true. Ubuntu, for example, is notorious for shipping old and broken versions of software in its package manager, and then never actually updating them. I've personally run into issues with leiningen, rvm, pip, and a few other packages where the version in the apt repository is known to be buggy and is never updated.
- dikei 12y agoIt's not that bad. Linux distro with point-release will always be become outdated over time because they don't upgrade there package to new major version. If you want always up-to-date software, use a rolling-release distro. In my opinion, the packages shipped with Ubuntu-server are pretty solid. No comment about the desktop version though, since I don't use it.