On 12/15/2011 12:44 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:

> Here is the fundamental problem from my experience. The stock EL
> distribution contains many add-on applications that are not up to
> current stable revision version from the application source author(s).
...snip...
> For those of us who use EL on workstations (including
> laptops) because we want the stability of, say, Mac OS X production -- a
> commercial, supported and debugged system (unlike, say, MS Win
> workstation, commercial for profit, but both poorly supported and poorly
> debugged) -- within the open systems model -- the issue is more
> pressing. We need to stay current with end-user formats and application
> interoperability, but without the instability of an enthusiast
> distribution. SL, like that of TUV, has the further significant
> advantage of professional paid (job, not volunteer) developers and support.

If you want a workstation system with paid developers and support, and 
that stays "current", then that sounds like the niche Ubuntu tries to 
occupy.

It does not sound like the mission of SL or TUV's enterprise offerings 
since they define "stable" in a way that excludes being "current".

Trying to cobble together a "current" system by layering multiple 
additional repos on top of SL is likely to result in a system that is 
less stable than the enthusiast distributions that you say you want to 
avoid.

-- 
Kevin