>> I never felt particularly drawn to Fedora myself, because it's a
>> bleeding-edge distro�one targeted to the very newest software,
...

> Pretty up-to-date versions of a couple of apps that interest me, too:


I installed Fedora32 yesterday as I was trying to compile an OCaml version 4.10 based application that needed some bleeding edge dependencies.

I found the dnf (Dandified YUM) package manager was nice to use.


I noticed with OCaml they list over 100 distros and the version of OCaml that is provided in their repositories. It seems that they get their data from https://repology.org/

It may be one way to get a rough idea of which distros are bleeding edge and which are more conservative, plus. Also, if you scroll down, which repositories don't contain the package you are after.

Some examples:

https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions

https://repology.org/project/python/versions

https://repology.org/project/blender/versions


cheers,
Ian.