Which distro?

After deciding I’d do what I thought would be a nice and straight forward Debian upgrade from Etch to Lenny, I managed to completely hose my server.

Eventually I discovered that the amd64 version of Xen simply doesn’t work. Anyway, I have no need for Xen on the server any more, and since the nice people at Citrix seem to have completely hidden the open source versions, I’m going to get rid.

So now the question is what do I whack on the server in its place? My distro of choice recently, for my personal boxes, has been Gentoo. However I just can’t convince my self that it’ll be stable enough. Or more that if it’s not, tracking down any problems could be a nightmare.

I suppose, another option could have been Redhat, but I’ve just never managed to “gel” with it. Debian would be an obvious choice to stick with, but with them ripping out xen so abruptly, I’m just not feeling the love. I’m sure I’ll be forced to make a descision soon enough.