I agree with the minor differences, but obviously, some focus more on the personal desktop (ex. Mandrake). I'm just wondering who is focusing on ease of use, where as I look at Red Hat as a mix of ease of use, stability, and power. Completely opposite of ease of use is slackware and debian.
> ---------- > From: Brian Ashe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:21 AM > To: Green, Aaron > Subject: Re: OT: SuSE review > > Hi Aaron, > > On Saturday, November 17, 2001, 7:17:00 AM, you babbled something about: > > GA> Did anyone read the SuSE 7.3 review at The Register? I kind of got the >impression that SuSE makes a better personal desktop distro, can anyone confirm or >deny this that's used RH and SuSE? I'm > GA> asking in the context of "a windows replacement" My wife uses Mandrake right >now, but I'm about to upgrade. > > Unfortunately, reviews of Linux distros are very hard to really go on. I > know that reading those (T. Green's first and second RH vs M$ XP and the > SUSE review) it could easily seem as though SUSE has the whole thing figured > out. But in reality, it is much more of a "If it installs easily, you're > likely to love it" kind of thing. > > To put some perspective on this you can also read > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/16/1418249&mode=nocomment > > which basically shows that it is all in the "will your hardware work right > away" category. > > Right now all three (Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake) are on the same version of > KDE. So there would be little to gain by choosing one or the other as far as > what you get in the box. But obviously, SUSE and Mandrake are more > KDEcentric then RH, so they will go that way easier. It will really come > down to what you are most comfortable with installing and supporting. > > The only real thing SUSE comes with that the others don't is Yast. I'm not a > huge fan of GUI based configuration tools, but I can see where this one > would be nice for people new to Linux. > > I can certainly not recommend against it, but I see little difference > between the distros any more except the "quirks" that usually make me decide > to just keep everything on one distro. > > Have fun, > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Brian Ashe CTO > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. > http://www.dee-web.com/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > You don't have to swim faster than the shark... > You just have to swim faster than the people you're with. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
