Re: SUSE 64 or Fedora?

From: David Speight (dsp8_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:36:36 -0700

Fountain of knowledge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this has been posted a million times already but I have not
> been able to find those articles.
>
> I am toying with the idea of buying and building a new PC. I plan on
> going down the AMD64 road. Also, I am tired of Windows completely now
> and plan on dumping it completely (even though I am a Windows sys
> admin!)
>
> I have been running Fedora core 1 on my laptop since it came out and
> before that I was a Redhat fan. My question is this though. Fedora
> are soon to release their 64-bit linux distro. However, I have heard
> some good things about SUSE (in general) but particuarly the 64 bit
> release. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I.e. Would they
> recommend SUSE over Fedora? I am not interested in the whole unstable
> & bleeding edge technology issues of Fedora as I like playing with new
> technologies.
> My bigger concern is that as I am buying into the 64 bit arena, I want
> to make sure that my choice of OS is the right one. So, Fedora or
> SUSE?????
>
> TIA

SuSE 9.1?

I have not tried Fedora, but when comparing to Red Hat 9.0.
They both look good and are stable.

+'s for SuSE:
YaST makes system administration much easier.
SaX2 makes video card configuration easier.
YOU (YaST On line Update) is easier for on-line system updates.
SuSE has an easier time reading FAT32 & ntfs file systems.
SuSE works with reiserfs (better than ext3).
Can read Red Hat ext3 partitions (Red Hat has problems reading SuSE's
reiserfs partitions).
AMD64 version has been out for about 6 months (seems pretty stable too
me after replacing a bad SIMM).
Has no problem with built in AC97 audio (Red Hat did).
You have the wonderful people of the SuSE usenet news group to ask
questions of. ;-)

+'s for Red Hat:
can download iso image.
more user friendly names for programs.
better support for ripping mp3's (SuSE stays away from possible
copywrite problems).

F.Y.I. Keep away from the XP beta for the Athlon 64, it will corrupt you
32 bit Windows! and has little driver support!!

Relevant Pages

  • RedHat, Fedora future?
    ... Here is an article about the future of Red Hat and with that Fedora. ... Red Hat or SUSE for the enterprise? ... laid down by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: A new license for YaSt
    ... > It looks like yast will be GPL'd on monday. ... The bulk of it is heavily oriented to being run on a SuSE distro, ... detection tool) would probably have more bits of interest to Fedora, ... but latest Red Hat did" and "I tried latest Red Hat ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: How do you know?
    ... Pretty much everyone here has made the choice to use Fedora over the other ... I used to run SuSE on all my servers and Red Hat on my ... Then came an ill fated day when I build two brand new DNS servers on SuSE ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Simple question--why linux?
    ... I used Windows all the time and in the last 6 months i tried some ... On Fedora, i didnt get me Internet to run, so i kicked it. ... Now i use SuSe 9.0 and im pretty happy with it. ... Im very new to linux, but i can already see the advantages. ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • Re: SUSE 64 or Fedora?
    ... > I have been running Fedora core 1 on my laptop since it came out and ... Red Hat AS 3 in y office) but now I'm looking for a new desktop orientated ... Suse seems a perfect choice for me. ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)