Niki Kovacs wrote:
Recently a friend of mine complained his Debian stable system was "too conservative", given the somewhat outdated software. I told him not to mind, since Debian is bleeding edge compared to my OS of choice.
Maybe your friend needs another distro, of course everyone knows it's conservative for a reason. I've been a Debian user for 12 years now, and still run it exclusively on my own systems. Though I use CentOS/RHEL for "work" stuff. For those 12 years I've run stable throughout except for about a year in ~2001 when I ran testing for a little while. Even on my desktops I run stable. If the hardware is too new(desktops/laptops only) I run Ubuntu since it has a similar package selection.
I *just* finished upgrading to CentOS 5.4 6 days ago.
nate