On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 08:37, Lamar Owen wrote:
But, if you really want a new car it is kind of painful to replace all your individual parts even though it is possible when you group them appropriately. Especially when the price is right for that other new car...
To go even further in the analogy, what do I want in a car? Do I want the very latest untested engine that might strand me in the boonies? Or do I want an engine that has had hundreds of thousands built and tested? Or worse: what if I have a new whiz-band hydrogen engine, and run out of gas a couple hundred miiles from the nearest hydrogen station?
Yes, it would be nice if some distribution tried to mesh a stable OS and well tested device drivers with the latest application versions where a bug won't cause a system crash anyway. It's a little too soon to tell whether Ubuntu is going to work that way.