Bravo and good luck with the bug hunt.

I'm pretty sure Ubuntu is based off of the Debian unstable & experimental branches, which means Lenny (currently testing) going stable means bloody nothing to them!

Debian is exceptionally good.

I have been using Lenny-Sid since mid last year. Now it is mostly Lenny and every upgrade was an improvement.

Now that it is finalizing into "stable", certainly from a desktop computer users point of view, I would say that it is just great to use and be productive, without issues of anxiety.

Fantastic!

Definitely the smoothest and most reliable distro I've come across

Only recently tried Debian in earnest having been a SuSE user for years. It's the best distro by far for lean, mean, dedicated server appliances under VMWare.

... if you're running it on old hardware so that the lack of the latest device drivers doesn't matter. this is why so many would-be debian fans have moved to ubuntu - debian but up to date!

ok, trolling aside, it's a testament to debian's design that so many things are based on it, knoppix (one of the first if not the first live distro), damnsmalllinux, {k,x,ed}ubuntu etc.

I used to love Debian when I was a linux nut but their geologically paced release schedule drove me away. Much kudos goes to it's rock solid stablility and lean install but seriously ice-ages have come and gone more quickly than a version of Debian.

Fire, because it's discovery coincided with the last release.

My only gripe with Debian is that sometimes updates change things in config files that I've set for a reason.

Stability wise, I've been running Lenny quite a while. I've had up times in excess of 100 days before a power cut ruined it - and that's not even the officially stable branch.

Installing on Debian is so easy. Once set up it's very reliable. Lot's of great How-To's on the Interweb also.

Think your correct, i.e. Ubuntu goes from testing/unstable.

Plus it will add the latest versions of packages that are important to it (latest Gnome, firefox, etc.).

Still, debian on the server is great (stable, etc.)

and other sites.

In the day job it my work teams intranet and outside of work in my role as IT Manager for a small radio station, it will be running one of our broadcast output loggers.

Easy to install, as easy as Ubuntu.

Also, I like it that there is only one flavour of Debian. With Ubuntu you can have server or desktop - even more decisions after settling on a distro.