I'm not sure I truly understand the advantages of all these different flavors of linux. I understand that Debian is the super secure, and Mandrake is the super friendly, and Redhat is enterprise oriented. But what I find is that flavors mean non-standard directories and other nuances. The only "linux" part of a flavor is the kernel. This is actually pretty annoying because one can never truely say "I know linux" in a deep sense; all one really knows is one's particular flavor of linux. My impression is that if you switched flavors on somebody they would be nearly as lost as they would be if you switched their PC for a MAC even though it's still "linux". Is this flavor thing good for linux in a long term sense? This goes for window managers too: if the Window Manager is the gateway to the system switching WMs on somebody is pretty close to switching the OS on them. One of the main reasons that I bring this up is if you were to choose to deploy linux desktops for your company, you should probably think long an hard about the flavor and the WM that you are going to standardize on because if you let people run different WMs willy nilly (much less flavors) it would be a adminstrative nightmare. You can't really count (never will be able to count) on any baseline functionality of access points amongs WMs can you...? Has anyone deployed linux desktop company-wide before? Do you have any juicey stories to tell about what worked and what didn't?
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