The way I understood it was that WAY back(which is just a 5+ years but that's way back in internet years) tons of people used Fedora for development. I seemed

The way I understood it was that WAY back(which is just a 5+ years but that's way back in internet years) tons of people used Fedora for development. I seemed to come into the mix about the time things started swinging toward debian/ubuntu and now some other flavours.. My take on this is that change and adoption in the wider developer space has just been increasing like mad.. RedHat is not exactly the platform of the latest and greatest. Now, I'm not discounting RedHat/Fedora in any way with this but times a change'n. Used to be years old stable releases were the best bet for stability. Now with progress in development and testing how many projects recommend the latest stable release? Other server distros offer recent-ish packages that are very widely used and tested so it's no surprise to me that a lot of development platform usage is trending toward these same distros.