> 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