What about the right tool for the job? (Score 1)

This is a very good point. I myself, being a Unix System Admin / Past freeBSD user started using Linux about 8 months ago. Knowing that it was just another Unix variant I actually started off with Slackware 3.5. I didn't really have that much trouble installing it and was using it for a few weeks until RH 5.2 was released. I must say that I was much more impressed with RH 5.2's install process and have been using it since. Although even though I installed RH 5.2 I wouldn't say that's what I use now. Just like any other distro, other than the few distro dependant utils such as rpm, yast, etc... All my utils an added apps were either added from ./configure ; make ; make install, or rpm -i blah.rpm (if I didn't feel like compiling)... My point is... Once I had RH 5.2 installed I tweaked it just like any Linux user. I installed Samba, Xfree 3.3.3.1, KDE 1.1, AfterStep 1.7.90, Kernel v2.2.6, etc... Other than some of the initial setup, every distro is the same... I don't see RH falling prey to MS business tactics and think they are doing a very good job. Until I ran the RH 5.2 install, I still was thinking I should once again use FreeBSD since the 2.0 install of freeBSD was very slick.... I hope all the so called hard core linux users will realize that RedHat hasn't done bad yet...and as everything else has been saying... If they're GPL'ing all of their utils/code, they can't really become a monopolistic bunch. Also, in the real world it is more than likely that vendors will make the simple install scripts / wrapper scripts for different distros because this is a significantly less amount of effort than actual porting from say, HP-UX -> Solaris -> AIX, etc...



Just my $.02 worth!