Part of Operations is weighing new and shiny features versus the maintenance cost of supporting them. You can make an amazing amount of work for yourself by de

Part of Operations is weighing new and shiny features versus the maintenance cost of supporting them. You can make an amazing amount of work for yourself by deciding you are going to run the latest and greatest, and becoming the maintainer of your own custom distribution. My shop is on the small side for deciding to bite that off though, so we try to leverage Ubuntu's expertise in doing that whenever possible.