Owen:
but these SuSEconfig files are very rarely a problem in-fact I think SuSE has a distinct advantage over say debian in that you have your keyboard mappings setup for you and that is just a glaringly obvious example. [...]
What are you talking about, man? It asks you first thing in the install what console keymap you have. XF86Setup (which is dead for X4, I know, but I've not seen what replaces it yet) asks you for X.
scripts and its layout is friendly also SuSE seem to release a distribution every two months and the stable ones seem to occur late in a release cycle (e
Debian releases a distribution every day ;-)
annoying habits are at least manageable, where as recommending Debian to a new user may leave them with the opinion that you can't map the Home and End keys on your bash/terminal environment to take you to the start and end of th e line.
Um, yuck. ^A and ^E, like $DEITY intended.
MJR