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Syntaxis: Thanks for the pointer to that desktop project. But Here's one thing I don't get: Unless I'm misreading the page, why is XFree86 still called "experimental"? The rest of the world has been using it quite happily for a rather long time. Does Debian know something no one else knows? Frankly, that's what befuddles me about Debian. I'll have to disagree, too, about the appropriateness of stable for enterprise desktops. It may reduce admin workload, but everyone I know would run screaminng in horror from stable on their office desktop. They'd refuse to use it.

Somewhere: I understand that Debian supports a variety of architectures. That's admirable. But, the implication of what you're saying is that progress in the x86 arena -- where most of the world lives -- is artificially constrained to assure consistency across all platforms.