That's pretty much what I said. People seem tot hink they need another distro to learn something. I'm happy to hear at least someone else out there understands.
actually I discovered linux with a slackware 6/7 years ago (it was version 7 or 8, cd given to me by a friend, really formative experience, but, hum, difficult for a newbie like I was) then I move to redhat and since 5 years I use SuSe Professional on all my servers (9.0 and now 9.3) and most of what I learned has been on SuSe, including the use of vi, bash scripts, compilation from source, configuration of so many services (from proftp to openldap, qmail, .......). I still learn every day. I try from time to time other distributions, but well, for the time being never had to do something that I wasn't able to do in SuSe. Some glitches sometimes, but never really importants and the only distribution that would be like I want would be a distribution that I would build myself, maybe when I retired in 30 years :-) Kind regards, Gaël
OT:
How do you pronounce your name? It seems German and if I'm correct it would sound like "Gah - ayle" in English.. I think lol. I'm terrible with Umlauts unless it's the U.
It's a celtic name (I think it means foreigner, or something like that). In french we would pronounce it "ga - el"