One of the reasons I picked SuSE over DebIan is that I'm used to the SysV 
initscript system as used by RedHat, and SuSE is pretty close.  They have 
fooled themselves with having non-standard file locations though - they don't 
always look at the same configuration file!  (There are FOUR different kdmrc 
files!)

This may be relevant as we discuss distributions:

http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Although they're wrong about Mandrake being current.