Thanks everyone for quick responses. I will give it a go on our Suse setup 
and see how it works. Since they have the deal with Microsoft - active 
directory integration makes life so much simpler.

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From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:03 AM
To: "General list for user discussion,questions and support" 
<backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about OS Flavor...

> I figured out pretty quickly that it's not hard to switch from one distro 
> to
> another, personally. The issue is whether you have infrastructure in place
> that indicates one distro over another (custom RPM build environments,
> documentation, etc.)
>
> I chose Debian because it had the most sensible layout, best quality
> control, best selection of packages, and was easiest to update, as of a 
> few
> years ago.
>
> I find Debian to be by far the best & easiest BackupPC install; but Ubuntu
> is pretty much the same thing (tho I don't like the name as much); so I
> don't see much difference there.
>
> -- 
> Carl Soderstrom
> Systems Administrator
> Real-Time Enterprises
> www.real-time.com
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