On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:39 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > Debian all the way. > It has the least stupid name of the 'good' (i.e. debian-derived) distros, and a lot of solid history behind it. ;) Solid history, like crippling an important and widely used encryption library causing an untold number of SSH keys, SSL certificates and encrypted data streams in general to be exploited within 65536 tries. That particular error lingered for 2 years. If you want a solid server distribution, CentOS, RHEL maybe Slackware. If you want a solid desktop/laptop distribution, Fedora, or SuSE. These distributions do not allow their important packages to be managed by children living in mommies basement.