Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[blu_discuss at seremeth.com (Steve Seremeth)]

As an admin who is supporting production, development, and QA systems, 
the _last_ thing I want it for developers or the like with a different 
distro than what I have deployed to production.  Not only for stability 
reasons (their code has to run the same everywhere), but IMHO there's 
just about nothing worse than a developer pushing you to install some 
completely unstable bleeding-edge binary (think Fedora or some other 
distro that has new-ish binaries in it) everywhere just because he 
discovered it will do the one obscure thing he is interested in right now. 

And it's _critical_ that QA run the same bits as what's installed in 
your production environment on the same hardware whenever possible.  
Want to get blamed for bad code in a hurry?  Run a _different_ OS in 
production.