But Ubuntu doesn't say that they use Ubuntu as "... an ideal incubator and proving ground for features." I use to use Fedora Core and then up to Fedora 7. I g

But Ubuntu doesn't say that they use Ubuntu as "... an ideal incubator and proving ground for features." I use to use Fedora Core and then up to Fedora 7. I got burned way to many times and view Fedora as a slight step up from Arch Linux as a working distro. Both Fedora and Arch are more "hobbyist" distros and I will not use them in a professional work flow. I use OpenSUSE and I find their model to be the best of Distros and haven't ever got burned by them. OUTSIDE of 2001 when I was installing SUSE and wiped my partitions because I didn't know what I was doing :)