I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... I love Debian, I truly do. Upgrades/updates are seamless. No crappy proprietary admin tools, just bare metal and vi for configs. Lots of little programs you don't get on other distros. Rock solid.
But... it's like a year behind every other distro out there. As an example, I checked testing and unstable to see the latest version of PostgreSQL offered, and it looks like it's 6.5.3. PostgreSQL 7.X was a major update, and has been out for a while. I'd rather not download a tarball and compile; I'd rather get the latest from Debian. But it doesn't seem to be there. I realize that the all-volunteer nature of Debian means that testing and such take much longer. And that the testing results in a more stable distro. So I guess my question is: what do you other Debian users do to resolve the long lead times for Debian releases? Paul
