[Leaplist] sad state of Linux default desktop installs

Dan Cherry dan.s.cherry at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 10:12:13 EDT 2009


> Phil Barnett wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 13:24 -0400, Ray Brunkow wrote:
> >> Yes, as I was doing a fresh install of Windows 7 and installed FF it
> >> was the 3.5.x.  There was no updating/upgrading as it was a fresh
> >> installation of the browser to a fresh install of the OS.
> >
> > Yes, but which version CAME with your windows distribution?
> 
> IE(newest vs 8 or 9 or 10 or what ever IE is up to now) I only used IE
> to update the system via update.microsoft.com and to download FF.  after
> that I never touched IE again while I had windows 7 running.
> 
Hmmm, why wouldn't you just apt-get ff (or possibly yum)????
I haven't used Windows since XP, so I'm not sure which package manager it uses 
nowadays   ;-)

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