What about Standard? (Score 1)

A good majority of new commercial software being released in binary formats are release 1) in RPM and 2) "for RedHat 5.2".

So what?! I agree entirely, RH is still 'just Linux'. I couldn't imagine being a commercial software vendor (read in "for profit") and trying to support a variety of platforms within a platform. At least in other OS's you know WHERE all the components are supposed to be, and that's what these companies counting on with RH.

Just when it's getting good you always get the ppl that whine because it's now how /they/ want it. In our ISP we ONLY use RH because it's a great platform to work with. One doesn't have to muck around with a bunch of different things just to worry about where in the bootup process a daemon is being loaded.

I've heard good things about other distributions, namely Debian. But, why should you loyal Debian folk feel that RH is crap, just because it's not what /your/ running? Look at what Caldera has did to make Linux more accessible as well. Caldera was my first 'commercial' distro of Linux that I actually purchased and it confused me, simply because it was different than Slackware, which I'd been running. After stumbling on RH when I started working for an ISP, I was amazed to find that working in Linux became 'fun'.

Anyways, I'm starting to wander a bit here :) That's just my 2 cents worth.