>SuSE is very vigilant about being on top of security issues and, like RH, often has a patch on their website before many
folks realize there was a problem or an exploit. The primary thing that attached me to SuSE, 3 years ago, was it's
system administration tool, called YaST (Yet another System Tool). Three years ago it was avant garde, but RH and
Mandrake, and others, have caught up and I am sure their 'YaST' tools (RH: linuxconf) are equally powerful.
^^^^^^^^^^^

linuxconf - perhaps great promise, but right now, (excuse the vernacular), it SUCKS!!!
You cannot trust it. (I describe any such gui or menu system config and management tool as "Idiot UNIX" - even YaST!
Why? Because you don't know exactly what the tool is doing to which file. linuxconf currently munges stuff.
When we report it to the maintainers, we get ignored. That is what's sad. I tend to avoid it.
However, there is no way that linux will get to the unwashed masses unless linuxconf becomes more mature.

I'm an old UNIX system guy. While it's been awhile since I could edit binaries by cat'ing to them, I still do things
by hand because I can do them quicker and be sure of the results. More power to u if u found a tool u like!

The big difference in the linux world is support. Not the kind you try to pay for. That sucks from anybody right now.
It's the list serves (e.g. redhat-list@redhat.com) where the gurus lurk and everybody answers. Even newbies get
help within a couple of hours for anything and don't get flamed! That's what's different in the new computing model:
the open sources community supports itself!!! Try that with M$ stuff! Now, some distros have better or more helpful
support lists. That is what I look for in comparing distros. That's why RH is one of the best - it's the users listserve!