Tisk tisk on you for asking this question. :)  In fact, I am not quite 
sure why your asking this in the first place -- you already know that 
there is no "best" distro. If your staff is trained on RedHat, it might 
be worth staying with RedHat.. you have options such as using Fedora, 
using Progeny (or others) for updates to Red Hat 7.2-9 (I think $5/mo?), 
lower pricing via a Redhat reseller for RHEL, etc..

If you want to move away from RedHat, perhaps Debian is a good choice? 
Use Knoppix as the basis for the desktop ... easy to maintain, patch, 
update, etc.. Should be free (as in beer) for a long long time.. etc..

Or perhaps skip Linux and go to something like FreeBSD? Overall easy to 
maintain/update/administer.. runs the same stuff as Linux (for the most 
part) and seems like it will be staying free for a long time as well. Of 
course, since it isn't Linux, there would be a learning curve to think 
"bsd". And no, it isn't dying.

Joe


Scott H wrote:
> I can't believe I'm asking this question, but it
> is time again to ask it.  What distro is best?