Ruby, git, etc - is a very portable userland packages. It means they almost independed from an OS. It means you can focus on the quality of the OS, while fresh

Ruby, git, etc - is a very portable userland packages. It means they almost independed from an OS. It means you can focus on the quality of the OS, while fresh user tools can be easily backported from bleeding edge distros like Fedora. I'm runing production servers which are 64-bit FC10 based systems onder the Xen 3.3 with kernels from CentOS. Resent Fedora lacks support of 64bit dom0, but CentOS has it. xen-hypervisor I'm using is from FC11. So, I have fresh developer tools along with latest Xen and very stable and well-tested kernel. It works pretty good. Linux is like Lego, not like Windows.