[GRLUG] Upgrading Firefox

[John J. Foerch]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:53:43PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 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. 
> 
> Strongly disagree; I find the packaging on Ubuntu to be extremely
> frustrating.  Not including rz/sz as a requirement for minicom?  &^@*&$^
> That is just the one a recall off the top of my head,  Ubuntu does a
> terrible job at declaring reasonable/realistic dependencies for
> packages.
> 
> > Like Suse, Ubuntu is geared toward newbies.
> 
> I don't believe either distribution is geared toward newbies,  I do
> believe some people associated with each distribution believe that they
> are. :)

I really have no credibility on this issue because I'm a Debian guy
myself.  I just don't go around recommending Debian to first-timers,
so Ubuntu it is.  :)  Cheers.

-- 
John Foerch