I would love to see us move towards Debian as a community. My sysadmin friends all run debian and roll their eyes when I ask them questions about redhat. 😊
The install process for MacOSX is quite reasonable, only OpenFTS gave me any pain and that was fixed by editing the make files. A packaged install on MacOSX or even Fink would make me cry with happyness as would debian packages, though I am not currently qualified to undertake either task.
Best,
Carl