Personally, I was ecstatic to try out Kernel Mode Setting. I was very happy with it...until I found out that it absolutely butchered the VGA console. Finding out that vgacon was not supported broke my heart. However, these decisions seem to have been made by the graphics guys up at high-on-the-geek-totem-pole positions on grounds of conflict. Seeing as I'm not prepared to give up my text-mode console, I promptly disabled mode-setting once I found out that there was absolutely no way around it. Ok, now that my off the side rant is taken care of... What about going the gentoo route and just having endless updates? What would be the merits/disadvantages in that case? I'll be happy to admit, perhaps with a tinge of shame, that even 6 months is too long. Whenever a new release comes out I am always antsy and want it badly. I guess you could call it asynchronous development, where version numbers levitate smoothly as new versions from upstream prove their worth. Just as an aside...if gentoo's customizability were combined with ubuntu's stellar package management and user friendliness I would consider it the perfect distro. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Markus Hitter <<a href="mailto:mah@jump-ing.de">mah@jump-ing.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Am 17.11.2009 um 12:19 schrieb patrick: <div class="im"> > Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even > when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality > software instead of buggy software like it is now !! </div>I had some thoughts on this as well and came to the conclusion, the base system and applications should be decoupled. Currently, the major reason to upgrade to the latest is for getting recent versions of applications. Right now I'd be glad if I could run e.g. the latest VLC or AbiWord on last year's Ubuntu (Hardy). Hardy worked so well with my hardware while Jaunty asks me to do 5 minutes of manual tweaking until all subsystems are running. After each boot! Of course, I could compile packages manually from upstream sources, and I have to for some packages as the distributed one is broken or removed intentionally (kqemu). But that's not the intention of using a distribution, after all. There are some buddies providing PPA's across Ubuntu releases for popular applications and I appreciate that very much. Perhaps it's possible to extend that path and allow users to run modern applications on a matured base system (kernel, drivers, blank desktop, admin controls). Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter <a href="http://www.jump-ing.de/" target="_blank">http://www.jump-ing.de/</a> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>