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atrus Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3	Up to date Repositories? One of the main reasons that I stopped using Ubuntu was the lack of upto date repos. Many of the programs that I used on a regular basis were out of date (Eclipse, transmission, pidgin, firefox, etc), Fedora generally had up to date packages, but I wasn't all that much of a fan. In other words, are their distros that have fairly up to date repos?

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coopstah13 Linux Guru Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NH, USA Posts: 1,753	You should try a rolling release distro such as arch. Also, if you like debian system debian unstable is pretty up to date with applications.

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atrus Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3	I actually currently have Debian installed, so I'll use the unstable. Thanks!

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sitex Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 2	up to date firefox on ubuntu I am Linux Ubuntu-9.04 user and I want to know "how can, up to date firefox". if someone can help me... thanks

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