"Over the last few months, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to community Linux distributions. In particular, I’ve shown you what you can do with Fedora, the open source software project managed by Red Hat that’s both a showcase for leading-edge open source technology and a foundry for Red Hat’s commercial product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
"But Fedora isn’t the only community supported Linux distribution that’s worth looking at as a Linux desktop. Debian, the distribution with the largest base of available software packages and the largest development community, has now come of age..."