A couple odd things happened recently. I was trying to set up Mailscanner on an Ubuntu box, and when I got to the project's site, it said to uninstall the Ubuntu package, and install their package. Lacking time, I didn't do that, but it made me think, "what's the point then?" I wanted the distro version because it updates itself automatically.

The same thing happened with NetBeans. The user-contributed Ubuntu package integration crashed a lot. The Sun version didn't.