FXRS: Good deal. Welcome.
You'll see on here that Latch is a Gentoo user turned FC3 (moron), and I myself am a Debian user. We poke fun at each other because we each think our distro is "better". Though, we all know Gentoo is inferior to Debian.
Oh, by the way, Debian sarge (testing) tree was frozen just recently to become the new stable branch soon. Woody (debian 3.0, stable) has been around for about 3 years. Debian gets a lot of criticism because they don't release enough for they're stable branch. But, what people also don't realize is that the stable branch will never ever break. They can move to the testing branch (sarge) if they're more ambitious or to the unstable branch (sid) if they're want bleeding edge.
I just recently installed Debian Sid and Asterisk 1.0.7 and am playing around with it. I'm trying to get it stable enough to roll out among 100 users or so. I'm thinking about adding an asterisk box at my house and make a SIP connection back to the office.
For those who don't know what Asterisk (*) is, check it out at the links below.
www.digium.com
www.asterisk.org
www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk