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Originally Posted by Nightfairy
I did that and all's fine!  I (as a Linux-noob) thought that muon would install an actual version - now I know it better! 
Thx to all of you for your help!  |
Well, generally speaking, you do get an actual version -- it's just that most distros keep things stable, which usually means old.
Take Ubuntu -- every six months a new OS version is announced. The upcoming version is still in testing -- and it usually gets updates as they develop the OS. Then they freeze the state of things, release it, and thereafter they only apply updates which have a security component, plus whatever it takes to keep things stable.
Most packages are pretty rock-solid and don't change much, even if you don't have the
latest version of, say, gimp. Firefox is of course always updated, because every release contains security fixes.
calibre is a fast-moving target, though -- the developer works on it every day, and releases snapshots weekly. There are no "stable builds", sometimes things slip through the cracks but they get fixed soon -- and distros may have frozen with the still-buggy version. Good chance, too, since calibre is always improving.
This is one reason why I like
http://archlinux.org -- it does no handholding, you are responsible for your own system,... and it is rolling-release, which means every Arch Linux is the latest version of the OS, and contains bleeding-edge updates.
(Gentoo is a similar distro, but source-based, you build the packages from developer sources instead of using prebuilt binaries like Arch... but both are do-it-yourself toolkits that stay on the bleeding edge.)
So... I sacrifice vendor stability for newness, and take care of my own stable.