Debain and Centos both is a good destro
Some people use Debain and some poeple use Centos,
here, Redhat, Centos , Fedora is same category
DEbain and ubuntu is Same category
But both Centos and Debain, you will see everything is almost same, such as commands , file system, just few service base command there is little bit of difference. thats all
Stability wise both are same.
but docuemnts wise i think debain got more document in google then centos
but i prefer centos because i started of with Redhat,
http://toykeeper.net/soapbox/debian-redhat/http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2008-02/msg02676.htmlYou can use Any debain or Centos but which ever you used try to know it , try to know how to handle problems , where to get documentation, where to get patches, where to get security update.