On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:59 +0100, Paul Dann wrote: > Are you talking about the willingness of the Linux community in > general to go through tough technical transitions for the sake of > progress? If so, I'd say that's one of the big things that makes Linux > so successful, and Windows so slow to improve. There are always the > distros with LTS releases for those that can't risk breakage. +1 I've got several Linux installed, but I only maintain Ubuntu Studio LTS (I'm not willing to maintain any Ubuntu Studio non-LTS) and Arch Linux, until now a very good rolling release, just a briefly look into my crystal ball does show an ugly future. Well, I'm an artist, I don't spend much time in polishing and dusting the crystal ball, hence my view might be a look into a opal glassed crystal ball. Regards, Ralf