OS suggestions

[Edward de Jongh <Edwardd@discovery.co.za>]

Hi all I've been doing a POC OpenLDAP implementation in a dev environment
using Debian as the OS. I know this is a very difficult question to answer
as it is largely opinion based, but here goes. I want to know what you guys
would recommend as the best/most bug free/easiest to maintain *nix distro as
well as backend is? In other words what will be the most user friendly? 

Any comments and or suggestions are appreciated as I am about to start a
fully replicated environment setup and would obviously like it to go as
smooth as possible.

Tia

ed