Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

[Gary V]

I can't say I'm a huge fan of Debian, but it is still my number one choice. 
The biggest plus is the apt package system and the ability to mix 'stable', 
'testing' and 'unstable' packages. You can leave the heart of the system 
with tried and true (and constantly debugged) older stable packages and mix 
and match them with newer ones and apt will always follow dependencies. You 
can also simulate what apt would do before you do it and it will suggest 
related packages too. The whole system appears intelligently structured, 
rather that simply a collection of packages. Sometimes I do get frustrated 
with some of the package maintainers doing things that that are unnecessary 
(or just not doing things I would like to see them do) but generally these 
problems are easy to work around. I have a lot of respect for them because I 
get this feeling that they work harder than maintainers do at other free 
distros (and free was a big deciding factor for me). I have used RH9, Fedora 
Core 1 and 4, tried FreeBSD (which I also like), and played with Trustix but 
still prefer Debian. There are a fair number of distros based on Debian so 
someone must like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
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