[ohazi]

Ubuntu is cut from Debian testing, not Debian stable. If you want to move upstream, you should be looking at testing, not stable.

In my experience, the stability concerns are overblown, and it makes for a really nice rolling release system. I've had individual systems run for over a decade on a Debian testing install with rolling updates, and it's generally been far less of a headache than Ubuntu releases.

[wankle]

I ran Debian on some of my systems for a while and ran into issues with stable that end up not getting fixed for a long time. I agree if you want to run Debian, run testing.