I went with Debian - for the past little while, prior to cozying up to OpenBSD, I lived and breathed Slackware. I liked its simplistic nature. However, the one problem that has always plagued Linux recently borked my most recent install - rouge post-install scripts updating crap that it shouldn't be: I upgraded libc, and my ethernet driver decided to go missing!?!
I was sort-of forced into running OpenBSD as someone had given me an install CD for it, and when my main desktop died (no-name-brand motherboard) and prior to my laptop arriving, I installed OpenBSD 4.4 on a clunker of a Pentium 3. It was beautiful.
My laptop is currently dual-booted Debian 5.0 and OpenBSD 4.4 and my replacement desktop (which is a Pentium 4 - soon to be delegated as a server) runs OpenBSD 4.4, only. The one thing I like about Debian (versus Slackware) is the way of "building the system up" as opposed to starting with a fully-fledged system, and taking the bells and whistles off, one-by-one.
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