On the one hand we have the Open Source hacker community; the folks who
enjoy tinkering with the innards, and who really get a buzz from a neat
hack (I use the term in its original sense).
On the other hand, we have teachers who want to use the technology for what
it can do, and who really get a buzz when a kid's face lights up as an idea
clicks into place.
For the first group, Fedora is fine; so what if it gets totally revved
three or four times a year? - the need to upgrade your system is a great
excuse to tinker with tools like yam, apt & up2date, maybe roll some
scripts to make the process even more automatic.
For the second group (like business), the need to upgrade the system and
deal with broken applications is a massive intrusion into teaching time and
a source of stress as they deal with disappointed users who can't get
things done. (Red Hat's answer to the problem is RHEL - but man! the
price!) Hence the interest in distros which promise better stability and
slower revision cycles, like White Box, etc.
Now, which camp are *you* in? <g> And can you see the other point of view?