Stop writing corny firewall & get a hard on SuSE scripts for newbies. Wheres does this fit into the technical crowd whose

I am feeling SuSE are losing their way. I first used 6.2 and was quite happy with its content. In providing a production service, I moved to 7.2 but have gone no further. The lack of kernel updates and now the eventual release of 2.4.16 when we are up to 2.4.19rc4. Yes, 8.0 I believe has 2.4.18 but should I move to 8.0 just for that? No! My biggest complaint - and this is of all distros - is that they will insist on fiddling with the file system layouts. If I find I need to patch a particular application to fix a problem which SuSE have not resolved, I end up with a major effort. Usually it ends up with downloading the updated src from the author's site and then getting it to map SuSE's layout. If you think the above has nothing to do with security you'd be wrong. All I want from a distro is a stable and secure platform. I use a distro to save time in fixing things myself and am willing to pay for that benefit. What I do not want is bells and whistles at the expense of aging products. SuSE - feel free to comment as I'd like to know where you are going. John