my computer is running under ubuntu 64bit. i install boinc from the ubuntu-packages-source and get 5.10.8? if i visit the boinc website, there is the version 5.10.28 for 64bit linux. whats the newer version? normally i think .8 is newer than .28? thx for help!
thomas

5.10.28 it is.

HTH

And normally the officially-supplied version is newer than any package provided by distros.

.28 is much newer than .8.

Debian is very conservative about what they let into stable, and Ubuntu takes a snapshot of Debian stable every six months, so anything you get through them tends to be older than what is available on the BOINC website.

thx a lot! it runs...

Think of it as .08, for they would put .80 if it ever did get up that high.

The period on version numbers is a separator, not a decimal point. 0.1 and 0.10 are not the same. 0.11 is newer than 0.2. But 0.1.1 is older than 0.2, it means an extra revision after 0.1.