Old Geany version?

[BrainHijacker]

I've never used Linux seriously, but I want a lightweight version of it for using GCC for my studies. I have a few questions:

1) Who is maintaining the software repositories? Aren't they the same as Ubuntu? Why is the Geany version I installed two years old? Is it the same with most apps?

2) Why is the update checker just a text dump with no options?

Bonus:
3) Why couldn't I use my yahoo.com email account to register on this forum?!

[valtam]

3) Why couldn't I use my yahoo.com email account to register on this forum?!

Because Yahoo was in the past the greatest contributor of bot spam accounts to these forums, they were a nightmare to manage, and we got as many as 30 registrations a day from bots with Yahoo accounts and something had to be done.

[rokytnji]

1) Who is maintaining the software repositories?

inxi -r in a terminal will tell you.

2) Why is the update checker just a text dump with no options?

what version of Linux-lite are you running?

inxi -F in terminal will reveal that also. I kinda miss the terminal readout on the updater. I do not have it anymore on my 2.4
installations. Just a loading bar on a gui. Sigh.

[BrainHijacker]

inxi -r mentions Ubuntu trusty, which I guess is the 14.04 LTS that this distro is based on (I have the 2.4 version)
I guess that's the stable branch, so if I want newer software I should get a distro that is based on debian-testing, right? 


The updater just shows a non-interactive block of text and then it's just a loading bar. So I can't see info about the changes, I can't cherry pick updates etc. I got more control on my Android devices.  ;D

[anon222]

I've never used Linux seriously, but I want a lightweight version of it for using GCC for my studies. I have a few questions:

1) Who is maintaining the software repositories? Aren't they the same as Ubuntu? Why is the Geany version I installed two years old? Is it the same with most apps?

2) Why is the update checker just a text dump with no options?

Most of the software repositores come from Ubuntu LTS, but there are other repos which provide most up to date software updates.
There is also a linux lite repository for our software. One of them is update tool. Untill recently, it was just an update script which ran this line:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

If you want more control you can use the terminal. The updater we provide is very simple to use because our target users are beginers and folks converting from Windows.

By the way, welcome to the forum BrainHijacker.
Hijack and Hi Jack.
https://youtu.be/SXSSrBBZV_8

[shengchieh]

There are many text editor to choose from.  Plus you can download the latest version from home pages.  I have

http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ (non-commercial; GEdit)
http://www.jedit.org/ (non-commercial; jEdit)
http://kate-editor.org/ (non-commercial; Kate)
http://kate-editor.org/kwrite (non-commercial; KWrite; uses Kate components)
http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ (non-commercial; Leafpad)
http://www.nano-editor.org/ (non-commercial; Nano)
http://www.nedit.org/ (non-commercial; NEdit)
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10966 (non-commercial; CUTE)
http://scribes.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; Scribe)
http://www.sublimetext.com/ (non-commercial; Sublime Text; programming)
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html (non-commercial; SCIntilla/SciTE.html; programming)
http://www.fckeditor.net/ (non-commercial; FCKeditor [internet])
http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/index.html (non-commercial; medit; programming)
http://worldofgnome.org/5-of-the-best-pr...inux-2014/ (5 Of The Best Programming Editors Under Linux [2014]; 1/21/14)
http://www.wxhexeditor.org/ (non-commercial; weHexEditor)

plus vi and emac plus

Sheng-Chieh