viva don vito at least i can now browse your insights!
yes youre right its faster to install and in fact i find with superb ease to install Red Hat than win2k or win98. I just browsed the the Red Hat Advanced Server Edition which has optimized the kernel for specific server purposes.
http://www.redhat.com/software/advancedserver/
quite interesting and im very much interested in promoting it, probably a venture i would proposed with buddy. the one thing i will not bite with red hat is their cert program, something that sucks compared to Sun or any other non-ms cert progtram. of course ms is always non-negotiable. I would recommend LPI cert for linux as it is vendor and anal neutral.