Although you are right in that any distro is good, Redhat Fedora has become a bit experimental for people learning Linux IMHO (some of the recent xorg weirdness comes to mind). And some distros are just plain wrong for people new to Linux, even though they are great systems, such as Slackware or Gentoo.
One of the strengths of Debian stable (which at the moment is etch) for Linux newbies is that everything works, yet it isn't made too easy like Ubuntu, which you can easily run without learning anything. This is a good thing for many new users, who aren't interested in building software, but wouldn't be the best as a springboard for running a custom server.
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