I've used Slackware, RedHat, Turbo, Debian, Xandros, and others.

I prefer Debian for any system that I am going to be maintaining over 
time because the quality of the packaging has beat every other distro I 
have used by a large margin.

Yeah, they have had problems with installation, but you don't need to 
install as often. I've had to do full reinstalls to upgrade most every 
other distro (including SuSE 7.2-8.1, I was shocked by that one).

apt4rpm comes close, but the consistency of rpm package dependencies
doesn't seem to be where the deb package dependencies are, and proper 
dependency management is THE make-or-break proposition for a packaging 
system.

That said, for a desktop system that is going to be fairly static (say 
one that is on RH7 now) I'd suggest going with Xandros or SuSE of the 
distro's I've used.

David Phillips wrote:
> Kent Schumacher writes:
> 
>>Note that apt is not a sufficient answer - apt4rpm seems to have
>>addressed that issue pretty well.
> 
> 
> Debian is not about apt-get.  Debian was around for years before apt-get
> existed.  Debian is about free software, distributed as high quality
> packages that meet strict guidelines.  Having an easy way to automatically
> install software is merely a feature that the packaging system allows.
> 


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