On 10/29/2012 10:22 PM, Marco Calistri wrote:
Hello,
Wonder why Mozilla updates are usually arriving delayed in comparison to the Microsoft version.
I.E. I get Mozilla Firefox 16.0.2 some days ago and Thunderbird 16.0.2 today for my Windows machines but nothing yet for openSUSE 12.2.
Thanks.
Regards
That's because on Windows, Mozilla products auto-update themselves directly from the Mozilla servers (or a mirror), while on Linux, you have a software managing system ensuring the consistency of the software installed/updated/removed on/from your PC. And putting the update into such a package - that's the RPM format for openSuSE and Redhat distro versions - has to be done by someone, and then that updated version has to be reviewed and accepted by a maintenance team. You see, the new version passes more hands on Linux before it reaches your PC than on Windows. OTOH, you can trust this model better - ever did e.g. a graphics card driver update on Windows and after that you had to re-install the OS? I've been there. Or the other way round: instead of just trusting the Mozilla team to publish an update for your PC, the update passes a whole lot of openSuSE folks to guarantee that your PC will work fine afterwards. And that for free! ;-) Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org