[ Thanks to An
Anonymous Reader for this link. ]
“PPA?s in Ubuntu are a great way to get software you would
otherwise have to wait for. Ubuntu, which is on a 6-month release
cycle, always has relatively up-to-date software for your general
consumption, but when you just can?t wait for the next release,
PPA?s provide a good channel for properly packaged updates. That?s
not the only audience for PPA?s. A very ?elite? few of us take on
the challenge of using an LTS release, taking it from start to
finish (3 years). In my case, I have Ubuntu 10.04 running on my
laptop, which is getting up there in age and cannot handle anything
newer. Though Canonical claims to support the release for 3 years?
and they do? getting up-to-date software, even something as
fundamental as a web-browser, can be a real challenge. Here we are,
only 2 years in the release of Ubuntu 10.04 and most of the
software updates that are not critical, have dried up. I still run
the latest Google Chrome and many others, but not the full
monty.”