Mine as well..

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Ouch!

The first distros I played with were the MCC and SLS. The first one I installed on my machine as the primary OS was Slackware but upgrading it really sucked. Then Red hat came along with RPM and the radical notion of a distribution that you could upgrade in a realitvely clean fashion. When Red Hat started making you depend on Gnome stuff that fell over every time you tried to use it mixed with really stale versions of reliable packages that actually worked, I switched over to Mandrake. Debian was always a cool idea that I didn't have the time to pursue.

If you ever switch over to debian you will never go back. Other than the odd program that doesn't have a .deb it just rocks. I installed it on my desktop about 2 years ago and have never had to reinstall or any cludgy new release upgrades etc. I just apt-get update apt-get upgrade every so often.

I've got enough friends who use Debian to have heard on many occasions that apt-get upgrade is a great way to hose your machine. Usually after one of them has done just that. I've actually been very impressed by it in the KnoppMyth context although I've also been very careful not to do apt-get upgrade either. It'll just take time to really get comfortable with it after 8 years or so of wrangling RPMs.

well I've never seen an apt-get upgrade hurt a stable system, and I've had maybe three serious problems with it on unstable over the last two years, so I'd say that's not so bad. I expect to have problems on occasion in unstable. Usually you can go to #debian and it tells you exactly the problem and what to downgrade until it's fixed.

of course I for the most part only use debian official repositories too.