I really like debian. Mostly because the system is stable, no, not in the it never crashes sense, but in the sense that things are well taken care of and the system can run autonomously for a long time with little or no attention. Install a debian system, do what you need with it, and it should be fine for a long time to come. For example, I was trying to upgrade (actually remove — but that required me to upgrade) a certian package from a certian machine (courier-* from my video client). I decided to just bite the bullet and run an apt-get dist-upgrade on the system, it's a slow computer (700mhz) and I knew it would take a long time to do. In fact, after looking over a few things, I realized that this server had *never* been upgraded since it was installed. apt-get had, of course, been used a few times to install or remove packages but never to do a complete upgrade. I checked in /etc/apt/sources.list, well, besides specifying a mirror that has been shutdown for several years, it was using testing. I wanted to move this to stable, since stable is actually OK now and I much prefer stability over newness now. I was 99% sure this had been installed prior to sarge becoming testing, which would mean i could preform a simple testing(sarge) to stable(sarge) upgrade. I poked around a bit before looking at /var/log/installer.log.1

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1292515 Mar  3  2002 /var/log/installer.log.1

Yep, you see that right. This system was installed back in 2002. Never been upgraded, to the best of my recollection I have never had issues with log file rotation not occuring and causing problems.