On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 11:34 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 20:49, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > My self I use Debian for my desktop and CentOS for my servers. With > > > Debian always can I get the newer "killer app" for Gnome. > > > > > > > What would be really great would be an intermediate level solution - > > the stability of the RHEL/CentOS base with available updates for KDE / > > GNOME / GIMP / PHP / MYSQL / POSTGRES etc. compiled on that base for > > those who want more current apps on the desktop or for development. > > And that with something considerably less experimental than the > > all-or-nothing FCn releases. > > > > Yes, I'm dreaming. > > You might like ubuntu which doesn't force you to make a choice > between stability and having up to date applications, although they > haven't been around long enough to see if they can really manage a > fast release schedule without introducing a lot of new bugs. > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ > ---- the notion of being 'forced' to choose between stability and up-to-date is absurd - the reality is as it is. Stability is tested, confirmed, supported. Up-to-date is new, less tested, less confirmed, not supported. One cannot be both. Ubuntu similarly makes choices - the choices aren't apparent to user until user chooses repositories for apt - after all it is a Debian distribution. Sometimes I wish you understood your own references. Craig