Know what you mean but for a system that's in use daily the stability
of the OS is more important to me than the extra features. I began my
Ubuntu life with 9.04 and upgraded to 9.10 then to 10.04 but found
that the system didn't work quite as well as it should so 'bit the
bullet' and clean installed 10.04 ( going for 64bit in the process ).
It was a good move and more than happy with the stability of my Lucid
64bit
I will keep up with the new versions in Virtual Box as and when they
come out and possibly investigate porting over some things to Lucid
but it would take a major change to get me back into regular upgrade
and possible clean install every now and again !!

R> I don't know about you, but that prospect does not appeal to me.
R> That is a long time in the computer world.