Well, you willlikely get many answers to this and an equal amount of people trying to convince you to take such or so. Me personally I am quite happy with Red Hat, though they sometimes make some odd decissions. Still, in the end it's all the same OS and kernel underneath. For me adding and changing stuff is usually not to much of an issue so I just go with Red Hat partly because they seem to be pretty stable business wise. Suse for instance has been having some financial troubles lately which don't mean they have a bad distro but is still a little worrying. Debian of course is also an all time favorite. Perhaps even the best choice if you want to lean towards the empeg more.

My suggestion is get a few CDs with a combo of various distros (the sell all over the place) and play around with them yourself. You will quickly find your own favorite and as I said in the end it is all linux.

Cheers,
Hans


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