I have just recently learnt Django and found Pinax to be a great source for creating websites quite rapidly. I was toying with the social project on Pinax 0.9a1 and realized I could make something quite easily by removing the excess apps in it.<p>I checked the last serious Pinax discussion on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764566) which was almost an year ago and most of the people here were rather apprehensive about using it. I was wondering if things have indeed changed for good in favor of Pinax now that it's closer to its first stable release.
I might just add what I have learnt from Pinax google group. Some of the people are actively using the development 0.9 version which is still in alpha.<p>My thoughts after toying with pinax in last day or two:<p>1. I got it installed on my Ubuntu 10.04 flawlessly. The Pinax documentation is up to mark.<p>2. The inbuilt projects are more than enough and provide great foundation for most projects.<p>3. I personally didn't encounter any problem whatsoever with the Pinax itself. I just installed it and was all set to hack it to make what I wanted.<p>Just my two cents.