"Be careful what you read and check the facts before you spread gossip
and innuendo."

Thank you for your post - if what you said was true fair enough.
However, i did say "i gathered..." in my previous post which was
partly the result of a long discusion on IRC ubuntu-uk. You criticised
and then substantiated on a several points i made and then finished up
with the above quote. I don't know how you can say Canonical is a
small player compared with Redhat and Suse when worldwide ubuntu
occupies the #1 slot. My experience of suse was that the sold version
works fine but the download iso has problems by comparison. e.g. my
ethernet connection continually seemed to fail in suse and yet not one
problem on ubuntu - same pc. Ubuntu philosophy is for free use and yet
the two distros you mentioned are hardly free... if you want a trouble
free version.

I didn't say anything detrimental to ubuntu - gnome does appear to be
more polished and have less problems than the other two versions
that's all. That is what many users find. Personally i find the
package management is vastly superior to the rpm distros from what i
and many other newer linux users find. Hence why so many stick to
ubuntu. I see quite clearly why other distros target ubuntu.