[kapilvt]

yeah.. we should all use a distro based on something unopinionated.. like systemd ;-)

personally i'd rather benefit from solid pkg management with updates and bits available for free (as opposed to only paid subscriptions) and with wide availability of the same cloud images across cloud platforms (published by the distro themselves).

sometimes opinions are good and beneficial, and become widely adopted because its just a better way of doing things ergo, ubuntu cloudinit for declarative userdata based initialization of cloud instances, has promulgated far and wide across other distros and operating systems.

[Crito]

How about a distro that moves carefully, making an effort to not use their users as test subjects?

I've switched to Debian Stable for all of my stuff. Life is too short to be beta-testing for Fedora/Ubuntu for free. RHEL/Centos/Scientific is another reasonable choice.

[duaneb]

Well with the rate Ubuntu changes core services I don't see how you could view this as a stable server platform in the least.