Subject: [SuSE Linux] SuSE vs. Red Hat
>
>Being with Linux for quite a short time now, I heard others talking about
>setting up pieces of hardware under Red Hat a lot esier than under SuSE. On
the
>other hand, people talk about SuSE being "the complete OS". I am using SuSE
6.0
>and indeed I have hundreds of applications on my HDD put there by the
standard
>installation - but I realize I don't need about maybe 60% of them.
>I was wondering if anyone could tell me why (if) is SuSE a better choice
than
>Red Hat? In fact what are the differences between those two leading (I
guess)
>Linux OS's? Of course SuSE has YaST, but also Red Hat has a System
>Configuration tool which is pretty cool (so far as I've seen). Can you
convince
>me that I made a wise choice betting on SuSE? ... (by the way, what SuSE
>initials stand for?)
>
>Dan.
I tend to do (In any distribution) a minimum install and the start
adding as I need things. (I have a very complete setup on my laptop taking
<400 megs where it would have taken >1G if I had blindly followed SuSE
packaging)
SuSE has YAST. SuSE has more support for xservers build in from the CD
(GLINT!) (Comparing SuSE 6.0 vs RH 5.2). RH is a market leader => more books
use RH configs than any other distribution. Slackware also has a good series
for it that ships with it.
I really like the package installer/upgrader for SuSE.
>
>PS. By the way, I've seen programs like Matlab which is said they're made
for
>Linux, in parantheses added RedHat, Debian, Slackware for instance. Does
this
>mean there is a posibility a program made for Linux not to run on SuSE?
>--
They should all work with SuSE you might need to download extra
libraries. I consider SuSE one of the best distributions. Red Hat should be
thanked for the concept of RPMs though.
Hajo
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