I'm also very encouraged by the speed at which FC is moving. Hopefully FC3 will include Gnome 2.8 and Evo 2. Both look like really good steps forward for Gnome (my preferred "Desktop").
It will indeed - the 2.7 versions will be in FC3t2 coming out Sep 13, but the final will include the final 2.8 releases that are made on Sep 15. FC releases are set to occur just after GNOME releases for this very reason.
Though FC is also not a distro to run on a server.
I've heard this too, but is it backed up by anything? RH7.x, 8, 9 were all acceptable distros to run on a server, especially a small home network server. While it's true that RHEL has taken off, I don't think that the changes in ideology between RH9 and FC1 were that great (I admit FC2 did push a few boundaries, but RH always did) and I don't think that there'd be any reason not to continue running FC as an unsupported home server OS.
I was rather put off Debian last time I tried it due to its lack of polish at the install phase. I'm lazy, I want the computer to do work for me, not the other way around.
You'll be looking forward to sarge then. I hope that the new debian-installer is worthwhile; it's easier to install than using boot-floppies, but I'm a bit disappointed it's not going to have graphical frontends. I'm sure Progeny will put out a Sarge-using-Anaconda iso or instructions very soon after release. I'm not sure what Canonical (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/591) are going to be using for their Debian distro. Craig