For what it's worth, SuSE was my first choice as a distro before I posted this question about which other distro to use:
http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1562
SuSE seems to have what Red Hat used to have, which is good corporate backing (IBM), yet geek friendly and willing to engage enthusiasts and small business, which Red Hat seems to have lost lately. Also, good package management, from what I hear. Also, it is reasonably popular for Webservers, not far behind Debian:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/ ... gress.html
However SuSE is working on integrating a UML alternative called Xen, maybe caker is waiting for that? ;->
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... =223&tid=1
(UPDATE: first URL corrected)