Thanks, I appreciate the reply and advise

Where I am coming from is I have a number of my people saying Unix, Linux is the go. OK, no worries to that. So we have Redhat on someone's machine and Suse on another and etc etc as we try to get a handle on this or these.

My query may have been too open-ended and outside the boundaries of the forum. But, at the risk of pushing everyone's patience here, if we are looking at any number of distributions so may other people who are wanting to get into this (in our case implement) and thus seeking views on it.

Again, thanks for the reply.