I personally would choose RH. They're well known in the IT world (as far as Linux goes) and have been very faithful to uphold Open Source/Free Software. Mandrake has done so in the past, but the recently released non-free software to boost their profitability. SuSe is a member of United Linux which has tried to close off GPL'd software with NDAs and it's sole purpose seems to be to compete with RH. If the free software issues don't matter to you then I guess this isn't much help, but if they do, RH is a great choice. And don't close off Debian as an option ;) Harold