On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:12 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > > What would you expect? CentOS is based off of RHEL, which tries to > stick to older more stable/tested software. Your using the wrong > distribution if you want the latest and greatest. > > Use Ubuntu, Fedora, or something else. > > As a casual user I'm happy with the gnome that comes with my Debian > Etch install which seems to be somewhere around 2.14-2.16, and whatever > version comes with Ubuntu 7.10(haven't turned that laptop on in a couple > of months). > > Really, what did you expect? Do you expect folks out there to constantly > build the latest & greatest for a "stable" distribution that consists > primarily of users that don't want the latest & greatest (which is why > they use that distribution in the first place). > Dunno - a good answer, like yours? Thanks (seriously). mhr