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Debian if you're OK with the packaging system??? The packaging system is probably the biggest win, hands down! I was using RedHat back when RPMs installers still couldn't do dependency management. Even though things have gotten better, I still hate RPMs. This article is flat out terrible.

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I had the same response as well. It's more annoying to get a package into dpkg format, but once it's in, apt is so much better than yum. More flexible, more informative, less chaff in the messages...

This. Once I got used to apt-get, everything worked as well as rpm and is much easier to admin.

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