ikkyu - 12:53 am on May 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

As for servers I've used Debian, their stable release is rock solid, and the packaging system works nice and is easy to upgrade. The setup has gotten much better, device detection etc, maintaining is a snap, just subscribe to their security announce mailing list, and use apt-get(or aptitude) and it updates or installs applications.

For my laptop I use Ubuntu, have been for a close to 2 years now and its just getting better. Its based on Debian, has the mindshare of alot of smart Linux types and the people involved are (realitively) polite in the chat rooms.