although this may sound like an inappropriate question - its not.
i am now starting to produce documents that will need to be as good as possible as they are for public consumption. i have always used mandrake (now 10.1) as my workstation as it has had quite up to date software ... but i am finding it a pain to keep up with inkscpape and scribus development. never mind the fact that mandrake, amongst other major distros, ship ghostscript 7.07! i wonder if a more "source" bases OS is a better idea to keep up with changes upstream, whilst keeping the local workstation integrated - ie if i update ghostscript i don't want CUPS printing to break, etc etc do people use rolling (non-release) systems like gentoo? freebsd ports? netbsd pkgsrc? debian testing? the core question really is which distribution gets the upstream changes in a timely manner? thanks tariq
