On Thursday 31 January 2002 9:36 am, John Voigt wrote: > At this point, I am considering switching distros, and am considering both > SuSE and Mandrake (I still can't bring myself to use RedHat...yet) and > possibly others. I need to consider both workstation and server > application for both home and business use, although there probably isn't > one distro which is equally adept for all applications, I'm interested to > hear anyone's opinions on the options. >
I switched to SuSE from eD2.4 and have been very happy. First with 7.2 and now with 7.3. With 7.2, CUPs was the default printer setup but I didn't use it, instead I installed the latest LPRng (like I always did with Caldera). I notice that with 7.3 they switched to LPRng as the default so that was a no-brainer. > My main criteria are: > > - stability/security > Have had no problems. I don't heavily use the on-line (and automatic) update facility but it is there and works well. > - A distro with some continuity/upgradability/sense of direction. > Wipe-clean/install-new gets to be a PITA very quickly, particularly with > multiple installations in different locations, location-specific > configurations, etc... > SuSE seems to put out a new release about every 4 months. I can't really attest to how well it upgrades from one release to the next as I tend to always do fresh installs. > - reasonable price without unreasonable license restrictions. I don't > necessarily mind paying for specific commercial apps, but If I want > per-seat licensing, I can use Windoze and make management reasonably happy. > Seems to fit the bill there. > - Not bleeding edge, but reasonably current > Same > - other criteria which I haven't thought of yet ;-) > How about almost every piece of software written for Linux? (although they don't include webmin for some reason) I've been a very happy SuSE user and now that I notice this is the linux.nf list I can say that I feel badly for some users of Caldera who are still fighting the "I want to install xyz but I can't get: it to compile/get by the dependencies etc etc. One reason I left Caldera was that I felt it was falling too far behind between releases and the split between WS and Server was not what I wanted. An SuSE distribution can be any kind of machine you want to make it and the machine I am typing this on is both server and WS. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 01/31/02 09:47 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
