Can you be more specific about setting up hardware? I've used many
Linux distributions (Slackware, RedHat, TurboLinux, SuSE and Caldera)...
In fact I think the only one I haven't used is Debian. I use SuSE
almost exclusively, even though some of the other do provide some
additional/different administration tools. My point in getting and
using Linux is to toy with the operating system. I've found RedHat to
be almost restrictive in allowing you complete control of customization.
SuSE gives you everything you need, albeit some of the utilities might
be a bit obscure, but there is no limit to configuration and setup
options that you have. In my opinion, it's a much more flexible
distribution... and maybe I've been lucky, but I've not had any problems
setting up hardware devices to date. If you want just a simple
example... take this into consideration: Once you've configured X, how
hard is it to change window managers on RedHat, as opposed to SuSE? (and
we won't even get into the choices available.)
- Herman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Tudor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 7:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>
> 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?
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