Linux evolves so quickly that all sorts of nifty new feature/function that Linux Desktop users would probably love to have is also probably only in the newer releases. This rapid evolution is not even all Linux's fault. The underlying hardware, especially laptops, move quickly too.

I freely admit that I am an early adopter. I am always interested in / curious about how well the bleeding edge stuff is doing. In part, it is how I give back to Open Source too: Problems that I and my early adopter fellow geeks can find and report on the edge make the further back products more stable when they come along.

Mint 4.0 is about as bleeding edge as it gets as of this writing. Life on the edge is fleeting for a Linux Distro. Mint is based on Ubuntu 7.10, and there is all sorts of new nifty goodness there.

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(My Mint 4.0 story and My Mint 4.0 Screenshots)