Debian comes in three easy flavors: Stable, for those who cannot crash, testing, for those who don't really want to crash, but want some more recent software, a

Debian comes in three easy flavors: Stable, for those who cannot crash, testing, for those who don't really want to crash, but want some more recent software, and unstable, for people who don't care about crashing and who want up-to-date software. I know many people who run sid (unstable) on their (desk|lap)tops. It has all the power of debian and apt, without the long release cycle.