Re: [gNewSense-users] Installation and Software for Multimedia

[Stayvoid]

> Yes r. siddharth, I appreciate that. Stable is important.By the way, I need
> to be educated on this next question. Why should I care if a specific Linux
> distro is old verses a newer version distro such as Ubuntu 12.04? Is it so
> newer programs can run on it?

There is no such thing as "Linux distro." [1, 2, 3, 4]

> I obviously know why windows 7 is better than windows 98 but in the world
> of linux distros, an old distro version can be as young as only 2 years.
> Please educate me on this. Thank you r. siddharth

Check this [5].

P.S. Please stop top-posting [6].
I also recommend you to read this guide [7].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why
[2] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#whycare
[3] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#howerror
[4] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#always
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
[7] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855