Yes you heard me right, Debian. I used to hate it back before apt. Despite plenty of pressure from peers, I never got the “Debian” way, but with the release of Etch I decided I would give it another go; this time I would not be disappointed. Etch worked flawlessly, powering my server since late 2007. Mandriva is but a distant memory.

Now we have Lenny, and I may be at the point of not regularly running any other Linux distribution, save for trying them out. As I sit here making this post from my Debian server, I wonder has Lenny finally made my Ultimate Edition desktops all but redundant. Don’t get me wrong, I like Ultimate Edition & Ubuntu, but Lenny is all I need in a desktop Linux distribution, and these days my “desktop” boxes are rarely turned on.

I do all my mail, browsing, listening to music, and quite a bit of development using my “server”. A rock solid but desktop friendly Lenny has made it all but unnecessary to power up those desktop boxes, their sole purpose (having more powerful cpus) being development.

The “Universal Operating System” is no longer just for servers. 🙂