On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > That's not true for desktop applications and environments. If you don't > have something current you are missing the improvements that many > thousands of man-hours of work have made. But I guess that's the bit I don't /always/ buy into. In the pre-Fedora days, upgrading every 12 months made sense because seemingly everything was just plain better. Things that didn't used to work now did, or font rendering was suddenly miles ahead, or lots of significant libraries were bundled. Then at some point that stopped seeming to be true. There's a whole lot of polishing going on, but I'm not sure much of it really matters to a user of a managed desktop. And for every bit of juiciness you think you're getting with an upgrade, you're getting the disruption of a reinstall or an upgrade, and seemingly for everything that's improved there's a bug or a quirk to match. I think the negatives of an annually changing environment seemed to outweigh the positives of an improved environment even when there weren't significant new bugs/issues. Will I move to CentOS 6 when it gets released? Sure, and I'm sure in some years time I'll be mighty glad I did. Will I force all my users to move from CentOS 5? No way. jh