I have almost the same way: Redhat 5 -> Mandrake -> Gentoo -> FreeBSD -> Slackware, and finally Debian Etch in April 2007. I've been using Debian for the latest

I have almost the same way: Redhat 5 -> Mandrake -> Gentoo -> FreeBSD -> Slackware, and finally Debian Etch in April 2007. I've been using Debian for the latest 16 years and am very happy with it.