As for me personally, since a few releases I've taken the vice of waiting on Sunday midnight for building the new kernel release and seeing what's new and what'

As for me personally, since a few releases I've taken the vice of waiting on Sunday midnight for building the new kernel release and seeing what's new and what's broken :) Judging from the bug reports, there's still quite a few people building the latest kernels - mostly from poweruser distros like Arch and Gentoo. If you use Ubuntu, Debian or CentOS, then yes, you're going to get an old and boring^W^W^W^W^W^Wstable kernel. But there's still enough of us around on cutting edge, I guess.