> We've chosen SL because it closely resembles the
> original distribution. We have hardware and software
> that only supports this flavour of Linux. Any deviation
> could lead us into a situation where we get no support

Sorry to say, but CentOS is 100% cloning TUV,
and StartCom AS is 99.999% like TUV.

SL has quite a lot of additions (read the relnotes)!

But, given the exact packages, I don't see how could they
affect your compatibility!


> Quite frankly, if you are looking for a Linux distro 
> that has all the latest bells and whistles 

Quite frankly, I am not looking for that.


Cheers,
R-C