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Yay, after three years of constant work Debian Sarge has been released as stable. This probally makes Debian sarge the most up to date and stable Linux out there. This stability coupled with mature community models, an uncompromising dedication to quality and an excellent package management system makes Debian an excellent server operating system. With the release of sarge and the shiny new desktop packages like KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.8 make it just as good on the desktop too.
I am hugely impressed with the Debian project, imagine a company taking three years to release a product because the quality wasn't near perfect. It wouldn't happen in the propriety world, but it can happen in the open source world. This is why Debian packages are often of higher quality than the upsteam package.
The implications of this release are that, sarge will now only recieve security patches. Great for minimising change on a critical server. The testing branch will now be named etch and new packages will be able to flow into it from unstable (sid) after the sarge freeze. So if you want a rock solid server or desktop use sarge, if you want an up to date, still stable machine use sid.