[wellylug] Looking for a new distro

[Gordon Paynter]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:46, John C Barstow wrote:
> What's happened is this - I'm now looking at running more and more stuff
> from upstream. I'm contributing or looking at contributing to GNOME,
> mono, x.org, HAL, and possibly even the Aiptek kernel driver.

If you're that cutting-edge, then I don't think any distro is going to have 
the recent versions you require out-of-the-box.

> Now, I know how to handle multiple kernel versions via GRUB, so that is
> not an issue. I can have one 'Debian-blessed' kernel that I use most of
> the time, and one custom build that I use the rest of the time.

Serious question: Why would you want to use a Debian kernel?  

I never use a Debian kernel on a machine that I wanted to use for anyting 
useful; they just act as placeholders until I an compile a "real" kernel. I 
can understand a complete newcomer who is unable to compile a kernel using 
the Debian kernel out of the box, but I don't even think about doing that 
myself, and I'm not sure why you (as a developer) would want to either. 
Surely any kernel you compile is going to be better than the Debian 
equivalent?

Gordon