Some packages are more stable or up to date on CentOS than on debian, java, virtd and xen comes to mind. When I used the packages on Debian I needed to do some

Some packages are more stable or up to date on CentOS than on debian, java, virtd and xen comes to mind. When I used the packages on Debian I needed to do some tweaking whereas on CentOS these things worked out of the box. I got this idea that in general Debian is easier to manage but for all the 'Enterprizy' stuff CentOS has the edge.