Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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Because 'unstable' test releases of kernels are often stable enough. MDK's never shipped with a development branch kernel or anything. Given the reliability of the kernel, 2.4.25-rc3 of the kernel is likely to be a hell of a lot more reliable than the 1.0 release of Joe Random App, but that's a 'stable' release so it's fine!
Most of the problems in Mandrake that people have really hated haven't been upstream like this, they've been things like the crappy supermount that used to be used, or installer bugs. The only rank bad kernel I can remember MDK shipping was 9.2. (I hated 9.2. Let's pretend it never happened.)