[Discuss] Firefox with RedHat Fedora

[Steven Kurylo]

> This is all great if what you want is simply available and ready-made
> for your distribution.  However, what if you want an application that is
> NOT available on the repositories for your (or perhaps ANY) distro --
> e.g. Koha (library package)? There sure was nothing like a simple
> apt-get or rpm that would install it a year ago when I wanted it.

Of course most packages do make a windows package immediately, but
have you ever tried to install a windows program which isn't
"packaged" properly?  You have to copy files all over the place, and
if some DLLs with a different version already exist you're in for a
world of trouble.


> So I have a question for you Alan.  Let's use some simple, frequently
> used applications like GIMP, Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.  From
> what I have seen, most distributions do not have the latest versions.

For Debian try visiting backports.org  often you can find the newest
version there.
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Steven Kurylo