Old Geany version?

[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.
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