> I don't want to start a flamewar;
It's been a long time.. here goes.
**FLAMEWAR!!**
> I just don't know the advantages of each of them, and really curious to
know how do they compare > to each other.
I ran my linux box at home on RH for almost half a year, and one of our mail
servers here for over a year. RH is a strong and robust OS, but after having
started running SuSE both here in the office as a multi-purpose internet
server and at home, I just found it rounder at the edges.
While both distros offer roughly the same level of SW with all the gadgets
and perks (like launching X when booting from the CD-ROM in order to install
(don't try with less than 64 Megs), extra hardware support on top of the
standard kernel, in SuSE Things work smoother, configuration is simpler, and
the X configurator (SaX) is THE coolest. Also, all the scripts and proggies
that run the system are easier to figure out.
Some people may say Im wrong on this, but RH is getting awfully M$ftish. The
dumb-user-approach saying "you don't really need to know *how* your system
ticks". Now if I wanted that, I would've been running NT. And I still want
all the power of my KDE GUI's behind the command prompt.
I guess between a caddy and a mercedes, I take the mercedes. Germans just
make them better. :-))
. My 2 cents.
Miki Shapiro
Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Sex. Unix. Snowboarx.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Eli Marmor
Sent: Sun, September 03, 2000 2:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0
Oren Held wrote:
> It's out in Europe , soon in USA,
> but the question is when will it be released for download..
> (Unless you wanna buy it..)
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Miki Shapiro wrote:
>
> > Anyone know when (other than "In september" which is what the website
says)
> > SuSE 7.0 is scheduled to be released?
> > I can't wait to lay my greasy little hands on it.
Only my own speculation: SuSE and RH want to include crypto stuff with
their distributions. There is a patent in (only) USA, expiring later in
this month. Both of the distributions, delay the official announcements
till the X date. However, SuSE already started to distribute their
package, but only in Europe and with no download options, because the
patent doesn't cover Europe.
But then comes a bigger question: If both have major upgrades (7.0),
with all of the latest and greatest stuff, then is there still a reason
to prefer SuSE over RH?
I don't want to start a flamewar; I just don't know the advantages of
each of them, and really curious to know how do they compare to each
other.
P.S. While I should not be a prophet to guess that RH7 will be released
in this month, I don't have any guess regarding Caldera. Does anybody
hear any rumor ???
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Eli Marmor
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