Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Collins Richey]

Excerpt from ¨LDAP server broken after upgrade¨.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote

< I'm rapidly reaching the point of wanting to ditch Fedora, if only all
< the alternatives didn't suck more  :P

So, I´m curious. What would be the criteria for an alternative that
wouldn´t suck?

In running Fedora, you´ve by definition expressed a preference for
bleeding edge packages, and those are frequently broken (if only for a
few days).

Are we talking about servers or desktops?

If it´s servers, I´m quite sure CentOS or Debian stable or even Debian
testing (as Mr.
Bandel can testify) would suck considerably less. If it´s desktop,
there are any number of candidates. The Debian sid (also bleeding
edge) that I´m running only has about 3 serious hits per year, but you
wouldn´t want to try this on a server.

Please quantify.

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