Fedora is probably the most cutting edge distribution (it uses the
newest versions of all the most important software).  Fedora sort of
sucks in Africa because every time you do the equivelent of a
apt-cache search it pulls the latest package list from the server
which sucks over a slow network.  You can turn that off but it still
will update try once a day.

Debian unstable is pretty aggressive about using new software as
well, but that also eats bandwidth because there are updated
packages released every day.

Gentoo is maybe a good distro for learning to develop Linux because
you have to do so much by hand.  It is complicated, so it forces you
to learn how the programs fit together and how they are configured.

regards,
dan carpenter
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