[Cialug] SUSE 10.1 vs. Ubuntu 5.10

[Josh More]

I like SUSE better than Ubuntu.

In my mind, SUSE has the following advantages:

1) Better business support - OpenSUSE 10.1 is the basis for all of Novell's Linux offerings: SLES, Desktop, Kiosk/POS, OES
2) More packages available - OpenSUSE comes with many more packages than Ubuntu.
    (Note, I am not familiar with 3rd party repos for Ubuntu.  SUSE has several)
3) Personally, I prefer RPMs to DEBs, using the logic that a package should install with a standard config, and custom 
    configuration is not the job of a package manager.  I am well aware that this is a personal belief and I am not trying
    to start a flame war.  :)
4) I really like the fact that SUSE is leading with new technologies:  xgl, xen, iscsi, etc.
    (Yes, it is true that other distros have these, but SUSE is making this a leading issue, not just "yes, we have that too").

That said, there are significant changes between OpenSUSE 10.0 and OpenSUSE 10.1.  Please wait a few weeks for the final
10.1 to come out and go through burn in.  *Especially* if you do not have an Nvidia video card.  The new xorg drivers
weren't quite there in the betas.  (Novell assures that the bug I filed is fixed in the final release.)





 

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-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP 
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>>> alan.maupin at mchsi.com 04/20/06 5:00 PM >>> 
I'm currently using Ubuntu but have noticed SUSE in the news quite bit
lately and it's sparked my interest.  

Before I spend a lot of time installing SUSE I was wondering if anyone
on the list had any experience in comparing these two distributions.  Is
it a step up, or down or sideways when going from one to the other
based on a general purpose desktop OS perspective.

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