Well, once again I did it. I distro hopped, and as I always end up doing, I cleaned off the previous distro on my laptop, so I'm exclusively running Debian testing on my macbook now.
Not that I don't still like Fedora, mind you. I think Fedora was a really good system. Fedora 13 was really stable (for Fedora), and ran really excellently on my Mac. It had a couple strikes against it, as far as my Macbook went. It would not boot on its own. I had to install a small Debian partition in any case, to boot Fedora, as the patched grub 1 that Fedora used by default wouldn't work. I'm not sure if it was a glitch with the Mac per se, or if it was a problem with refit, which I use to boot the bios legacy system. In any case, I had to set up Grub 2 with Debian, then use it to boot Fedora. The other thing that I wasn't too fond of was the incluson of SELinux, whether you want to use it or not. Now, there's nothing wrong with SELinux, except that I really didn't need it, and didn't need the overhead it provided, even when turned off. All that said, I still like Fedora a lot. Yum has improved immeasurably since the last time I ran Fedora (FC5). It's far more stable than it was back then too. I had a Gateway back then, and from F7 through F9, there were serious problems running it. F13 installed and everything worked out of the box on the Gateway. And I mean EVERYTHING. Not quite so lucky on my Macbook, but it still ran quite well, once I bypassed the Fedora Grub system, and all of the hardware was able to work, some with a little tweaking, but it all worked.
Debian testing works even better. I decided to be a little different this time, and go back to my roots. When I first started working with Linux back in the 90s I ran Slackware with the FVWM window manager. Well, I've played with Slack fairly recently, and although it worked fine, I saw nothing compelling me to run it. But I did decide to work with FVWM again. And I still love it. Nothing else is even nearly so configurable. You can have your desktop look like anything you want with FVWM, if you're willing to work with the .conf file. And it's extremely fast and small. My entire system complete with compiler, X, Firefox, a few KDE aps I really don't want to lose, and of course my gpodder takes under 3G. Try that with Fedora (or Ubuntu). I'm also free of the system tray. The aps you would expect to be in the tray (like a network manager, sound manager, et al, are simply done from the command line (circa 1998) since I know how to do it, and with a little tweaking, it's able to connect to any free network, and of course my WPA network with no problems at all. Other tray aps like mail, gpodder, and choqok simply run in in their own virtual desktop. Flip to them in a half second, probably quicker than I could restore them from the tray.
Obviously I'm happy with this setup! We'll see how long I stay on this. I expect it will be quite a long time.