Re: Suse Benefits? Which distro?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:34:05 +0200, noname wrote:

Pete wrote:
I can't tell you how much fun I've had using Live CD's, and also
installing every now and then. Most of the distro's look fairly alike.
Suse seems bulkier. What is special about OpenSuse? This would seem to be
the place to ask the question. I love linux, but need to settle on a
distribution. I also see that Linspire plans to include Suse in it's CNR
support.

-Pete

I can tell you what I think is special about openSUSE (using it since
1997), but in the end it is up to you how you feel about it. Imho the
benefits are in the 'long' history of the distribution, large base of
real dedicated developers and users, strong community that is still
growing after years, the way it is oriented to be used and a very solid
and rich public informationbase of years about SuSE related context. It
is also one of the few distributions with passion for interplatform use
and transparancy. In general I admire it as a professional distribution
with profesional users and community (professional attitude to make
openSUSE and the community valuable for everybody). If I compare this to
other renomated distributions or nowdays 'hypeded' distributions I can
only see parts of this reflected there.

Again, in the end it is about how you feel about it. Take a look at
opensuse.org for the official community side, visit suse.com for the
professional side of suse, review suse improvement at
bugzilla.novell.com, watch the dedication of the official developers at
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/, browse the official support section
[1], read the mailinglists like this one and at
http://lists.opensuse.org/, search the internet and last but not least:
install it, use it, compare it to see if it fits your needs.
S.

[1]
http://www.novell.com/support/browse.do?WidgetName=BROWSE_PRODUCT&BROWSE_PRODUCT.TaxoName=SG_SupportGoals&NodeType=leaf&NodeName=openSUSE&TaxoName=SG_SupportGoals&BROWSE_PRODUCT.isProductTaxonomy=true&BROWSE_PRODUCT.NodeId=SG_SUSELINUX_1_1&BROWSE_PRODUCT.NodeType=leaf&BROWSE_PRODUCT.thisPageUrl=%2Fproduct%2Fproducts.do&NodeId=SG_SUSELINUX_1_1&id=m1&AppContext=AC_SiteCentral

Thanks for your well reasoned response.
One of the MOST important things is to be able to install new software via
the Internet. I guess that's YaST, but I don't know how to install it!
-Pete
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