i agree with the making Linux easier to use so more people can use it, just in my opinion red hat isnt for me, when i first started Linux i used mandrake, that was very simple, it was mandrake 7.1, right now i use Suse Linux 8.1 wich to me is very easy and also has things for advanced users, and since im german, its kinda nice its made where my ancestors came from also i think red hat is a good distro (not for me, its just not my thing) but for me i just like debian, slackware and Suse more. i didnt mean to sound like a red hat hating machine, its just not for me, but for people that are like you said, that and SuSe and mandrake are perfect, i love Suse, it has great GUI based things, and also i dont know if youv ever used it but also theres an option when you log in (you pick it in the spot where you pick what GUI to use) called xsplash i think? its a CLI but lets you load GUI things and has a nice looking GUI, just its all a command line, and also you can use your mouse, to me thats awesome because people afraid to learn without a GUI (i used to be) can use that or eterm, wich is another nice thing to have, also Suse has awesome hardware support, it found and installed drivers for my ZIP drive, (external) and also everything i had except my scanner. and hasnt had a problem, my last uptime (today) was over 7 days and i had things loaded and using things and i work that machine out. now that may not seem like much to a server or someone who built there PC but this is a computer thats almost 4 years old my first PC) and only has two fans and no hardware mods except ram.

http://www.linux.org is in my opinion a great resource, it has everything from tools to a walk threw of an install.

http://www.linuxiso.org is in my opinion one of the best places to download a distro, they have more than just linux and its great.

but anyway this post is longer than i anticipated so sorry about that but i wanted my opinion in and good luck to you in future hole findings i thought it was neat that you found that in red hat.