Suse is NOT slow (Suse vs yoper vs etc)

From: Sven Lossman (lossman99_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:34:02 -0500

        Having just picked up a new hard disk I decided to experiment a little
        and try out a few distributions to see if I could lend any credence to
        the statements that "Suse is slow". I tried yoper/mandrake and fedora FC3
        and I while I freely admit I am no Linux guru, each of these
        distributions have their ups and downs. Yoper is super easy to install
        and update. Unfortunately, the update broke the rendering of gtk somehow,
        which means the main config program yoper.conf did not work and screens
        in gtk applications like pan looked terrible. I spent about an hour
        trying to figure out what was wrong and the fix was to re-install gtk. I
        never did get printing working with yoper.
        
        Mandrake was nice but I got annoyed at the update mechanism and
        I also found that the tools were scattered about.
        I don't know why but Mandrake just didn't do anything great for me and I
        mean this in a subjective context. It worked, but it was a royal pain to
        configure. I also didn't like the look, which of course I could change,
        but I grew weary or playing with it.

        Fedora FC3 was very interesting and it installed fine. I will agree
        that support for Fedora is very widespread. I usually found the
        answerto my questions on the first Google.
        However, using the update yum I had it hang on me many times during
        the initial update. The box would not repaint correctly and looked
        like a blank box with no progress bar and so on. I found a few
        hits on this problem and got around it by killing yum and
        restarting. Kind of crude, but it worked.
  My biggest complaint with fedora was gnome. I hate gnome and while I did
  install kde, it seems kind of brain damaged on FC3. Gnome for example
  wouldn't read a CD that had my printer drivers on it? It kept displaying
  2 files about desktop.db and something else. I also find the console to
  be frustrating to change fonts and schemes.

  So now for the million dollar question, "What about speed"? Yoper was
  fast, but not that fast.
  Mandrake and fedora were no faster or slower IMHO than Suse 9.2 on my
  PIV system (3.0ghz).
  I'm not sure what people are doing wrong to come to the conclusion that
  SuSE is slow, but I certainly don't have that experience. Sure it's not
  as fast as yoper, but the difference is barely perceptible and as far as
  comparisons to fedora and others it's a toss either way.
 
 For me, the professional tools and beautiful look of Suse makes me stick
 with Suse and as for support, I have mostly been able to get answers to
 my sometimes foolish questions.
 I hope people thinking of trying SuSE will read this and give it a whirl.
        Suse rocks! 

-- 
Sven Lossman 
"Freedom of choice is humanities most basic right. 
Take it away and the result will be  anarchy"

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