On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 23:58 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: > On 19 October 2010 23:32, Tony Doherty <tony.dohe...@zen.co.uk> wrote: > > I am always keen to update to the latest releases of Ubuntu. > > > > However, can I ask - if I were to stick with a LTS version such as 10.4 > > long term - would this version eventually receive updates to upgrade to the > > latest versions of, say, FireFox and OpenOffice when they become available? > > > > Generally no. The software versions stay as they are when that version > of Ubuntu was released. The only updates are to fix bugs. Sometimes > this means updating to a new bugfix release of given software, > sometimes it means Ubuntu manually applying bugfixes in their > packages.
Well, the LTS *will* get a new version of Firefox in the future (once 3.6 is end-of-life), although it will most likely skip 4.0. Regards Chris
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