[GRLUG] Upgrading Firefox

[John J. Foerch]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:43:04PM -0400, Edward Crawford wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> My name is Edward & my brother sent me an IBM thinkpad with Linux Suse 10.1
> loaded. It has Firefox 1.0 on it and I'm trying to update to the newest Firefox
> so I can do google docs via browser. I've tried using the utility "Yast" to do
> an upgrade to my box but it doesn't find the repository & I can't see where to
> go to resolve this. I'm pretty new to linux & finding a concise answer to my
> questions on how to do simple things isn't so easy or available. I talked with
> Casey at Barcamp & he said you all are a great source.
> 
> Let me know if you can help.

Hi Edward,

Suse 10.1 is getting kind of old.  You might consider wiping the hard
drive and installing say, Ubuntu.  The reason I recommend Ubuntu over
Suse is that it has better package management.  Like Suse, Ubuntu is
geared toward newbies.

-- 
John Foerch