Re: Two day experiment
- From: Paul J Gans <gans@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:29:34 +0000 (UTC)
Chris Cox <notccox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Godzilla wrote:
...
From this brief digression into a new operating system, I can draw
several premature conclusions:
1. Ubuntu is far easier to install than SuSE.
Ok.. I can see that. But like Red Hat, the install is pretty
inflexible as well. A TON of assumptions are made. The biggest
is that you don't have anything strange or unique with regards
to your hardware configuration (certainly nothing VERY expensive
for example). AND I know that there are some in the openSUSE
community that believe SUSE should follow suit... I say, there's
enough brain dead distros out there... no need to create another.
<grin> This is where my rant on choices in Suse came from. Suse
tries to be, in my opinion, all things to all users.
My suggestion was a front screen that gave you three levels of
install. The first might be called "Ubuntu", the second "Suse",
and the third "manual"... <more grins>
But the hardware situation with Ubuntu isn't all that bad. It
recognized wireless stuff Suse does not, and I've seen it installed
on strange hardware.
2. Their philosophy seems geared toward making the transition easy for
people accustomed to using Windows.
Huh? Perhaps if you have KDE (Kubuntu). I see nothing particularly
easy about the Gnome apps, unless you like the lack of integration.
They install OK. I did Gnome just to see what would happen. Seems
to be OK.
3. Applications do seem to load faster than with SuSE, probably
because of less overhead in the coding.
That does depend of course. Ubuntu is not going to work AT ALL
on some configurations where openSUSE will. So... if you compare
"not working at all" with working... then openSUSE is (I suppose)
faster in those cases.
I think the problem there is that there is much less stuff running in
the background in Ubuntu.
If I had to use one system, I could live comfortably with either one.
Others have succeeded in creating seamless multiple boot systems,
so in this regard I blame no one other than myself.
But, for now I remain a SuSE user. ;-)
There is a large class of users for which Ubuntu/Kubuntu/*buntu is
going to work.... nothing wrong with that. However, if you want
spit an polish, ease of use, then you might want to look at
PCLinuxOS or a Linspire-ish distro. When those distros work (they
make even more assumptions than Ubuntu and friends), they are
absolutely beautiful.... and will certainly impress your Windows
friends.
But as you say, I'll stick with openSUSE and SLES.... there's something
to be said for enterprise class hardware support.
Except when you have trouble, you *really* have trouble...
The good news... there's plenty of things that can be done
to make openSUSE better!!! And that's actually a VERY good thing.
However, if you REALLY like to help distros out, then by all
means, I'd look at Fedora/Red Hat... IMHO, these folks are still
fumbling around in the dark.
I'd agree. Suse remains my favorite. I think that the development
team is learning and with some strong leadership (so it doesn't go
off in five directions at once) it will be just fine.
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--- Paul J. Gans
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