I'm not sure it is. Speaking only from personal experience, we've canned all our Ubuntu LTS machines as they were terribly unreliable (kernel failures and wier

I'm not sure it is. Speaking only from personal experience, we've canned all our Ubuntu LTS machines as they were terribly unreliable (kernel failures and wierd bugs on good hardware) and shipped broken packages regularly (mysql-server being the most notorious). No problems at all with Debian so far.