High on the list was the ability to manage and administer multiserver installations. The company's huge installed base and deep training infrastructure is great. Not a problem. Along the way, both Netscape's FastTrack Web server and Oracle's database have been added to the mix. Linux distributions start out equal, with the same kernel and, mostly, the same package set.
Differences pop up with how each version is compiled, installed and administered.
You'll also find various GUI differences. In TurboLinux's case, the default GUI is afterstep, a nextstep-like front end. TurboLinux has great hardware detection it is the only distribution we've seen that identified and properly used one test system's full 96MB of memory. There were no hardware discovery problems on any of the boxes we used. Once the basics are set, get ready for another pleasant surprise the slickest Linux package installer around, turbopkg.