->> who have administered both dists. I have administered both boxes. As mentioned with redhat you can not use both linuxconf and edit the scripts by hand. As far as the scripts with redhat once you inderstand how they are put together you can edit them by hand just as easy as another dist. My biggest reason for making the RedHat to debain switch was because of the package manager. The debian package manager is much nicer, cleaner, and use ful then the redhat package manager. I have also never successfully upgraded a redhat box from one version to another. I always end up reinstalling redhat. When debian made the libc to glibc switch everything went smoothly. RedHat has some to learn.
Bob