Not that anyone should care what I think, but the longer I'm in this game, the more I respect the ability and accomplishments of the Debian Project. Most proprietary Linux distros have done something in last 4 or 5 years to unsettle their previously loyal users. Some have turned against the Linux community like Caldera, a few have vanished, and most have flipflopped on their business models. SUSE is strong but it has also contained important proprietary pieces like YAST. I can't imagine that trend will change now that they are owned by Novell.
I get the feeling that the more of us there are using and supporting the Debian effort the safer we'll all be. I'm writing this on a mandrake box, but mandrake is a bleeding edge distro, mainly suited to the desktop, and it has come close to going OOB, and it may do so again.
I have to agree on the quality of Debian and especialy the stable version for server usage. After using apt-get I could never go back to the frustration of an rpm based distro again. And with the social contract they have you can be confident you won't have anything like redhats latest move pulled on you. I've moved all my boxes over to it except for one remaining 7.3 running LTSP and the will go over too by Dec,31st. On the point of cutting edge, I've been running a mix of Debian testing/unstable on my desktop for some time now and have had no major trouble while having all the latest versions of everything. It would be great if all the open source projects would start treating Debian as the primary distro and leave redhat and such behind as the redheaded stepchildren. It's bad enough to hear the same chant from all the hardware vendors, "we only support redhat".
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