It's finally here and it looks like SUSE is finally back to being the undisputed champion of Linuxdom. I know there's some folks who hate openSUSE because it's partly made by Novell who did a deal with M$, but you can't argue with being the best...
openSUSE 10.3!!!
I am down loading it right now. I cant wait to give it a spin. I liked 10.2 but it had a few flaws that I couldn't live with.
| Studio Madcrow wrote: |
| It's finally here and it looks like SUSE is finally back to being the undisputed champion of Linuxdom. I know there's some folks who hate openSUSE because it's partly made by Novell who did a deal with M$, but you can't argue with being the best... |
openSUSE is NOT the best distro. YaST is nice, it's user friendly, it looks good by default, and it's terribly slow.
Some guy messaged me on MSN saying he was downloading it earlier
When I get Leopard in a couple of weeks, I'll be reformatting and partitioning with boot camp to put suse on it.
| Studio Madcrow wrote: |
| It's finally here and it looks like SUSE is finally back to being the undisputed champion of Linuxdom. I know there's some folks who hate openSUSE because it's partly made by Novell who did a deal with M$, but you can't argue with being the best... |
That's a quite relative statement. It may hold true for you. It may hold true for many others. But, it surely can't hold true for everyone. Atleast it doesn't hold true for me.
And it's not about Novell at all. For me personally, I have never liked package management under rpm based distros somehow. Then again I am not so fond of administering whole of my system using GUI. GUI is nice in right places but not everywhere. Sometimes it becomes an hindrance rather.
Suse has some quite good features nonetheless like AppArmour, YaST, really good installer, which make it a good choice for many.
OpenSuSE is a very good distro. But as we know, Linux is all about choice. That's what makes Linux so great - choice. Don't like KDE? Try GNOME, Fluxbox, Xfce and so on. Don't like SuSE, try Ubuntu, Mandriva, or Linux Mint.
In my opinion, SuSE is not the best, I honestly prefer Ubuntu to OpenSuSE because of its simplicity and "One Program - One Task" rule.
In my opinion, SuSE is not the best, I honestly prefer Ubuntu to OpenSuSE because of its simplicity and "One Program - One Task" rule.
| LostOverThere wrote: |
| OpenSuSE is a very good distro. But as we know, Linux is all about choice. That's what makes Linux so great - choice. Don't like KDE? Try GNOME, Fluxbox, Xfce and so on. Don't like SuSE, try Ubuntu, Mandriva, or Linux Mint.
In my opinion, SuSE is not the best, I honestly prefer Ubuntu to OpenSuSE because of its simplicity and "One Program - One Task" rule. |
I think you've just hit the nail on the head of the differences between Ubuntu fans and SUSE fans. SUSE fans love having HUGE ammounts of choice, while it tends to confuse Ubuntu users...
Also, who ever said that SUSE is slow is strange. I ran it for YEARS on a Pentium 3 866MHz with only 256 MB of RAM and it was quite usable and not at all slow. I just moved up to an Athlon XP 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM and it only gets better...
BTW, I posted this from SUSE 10.3, the first version of Linux to successfully deal with my wireless card without making me compile kernel modules and stuff.
I will try it, when I will have a bigger HDD. 
I used SuSe 8.1, 9.0 and 9.1, and I think it is a very user friendly distribution. I leave it, because I can't compile a new kernel on it. Now I use Fedora, but I want to try other distributions.
Are there any Live CD-s based on SuSe 10.3 to try it without a big HDD?
I used SuSe 8.1, 9.0 and 9.1, and I think it is a very user friendly distribution. I leave it, because I can't compile a new kernel on it. Now I use Fedora, but I want to try other distributions.
Are there any Live CD-s based on SuSe 10.3 to try it without a big HDD?
| Drvanger wrote: |
| Are there any Live CD-s based on SuSe 10.3 to try it without a big HDD? |
I can't see any on their download page. Nor any information on it http://en.opensuse.org/Live_CD
Agreed
openSuse being the "best" is an opinion
there is no "best" linux distro, but merely what you feel comfortable with
there is facts though, and one fact with suse is that it uses a form of RPM (which does horrible dependency checking)
and openSuse's kernel is built with nearly every feature
does your new dell really need tape drive support?
-clay
openSuse being the "best" is an opinion
there is no "best" linux distro, but merely what you feel comfortable with
there is facts though, and one fact with suse is that it uses a form of RPM (which does horrible dependency checking)
and openSuse's kernel is built with nearly every feature
does your new dell really need tape drive support?
-clay
Mehulved wrote:
I am used to SuSE on our servers. Partially I administer it with Yast and/or KDE, but hé, it's just normal Linux! Most of the time I'm still poking around in config files for streamlining the systems like I would do with other distro's. So you can easily administer it without the GUI. 95% of the time I use putty (secure shell client) with only a simple command prompt.
JohanFH
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| Then again I am not so fond of administering whole of my system using GUI. GUI is nice in right places but not everywhere. Sometimes it becomes an hindrance rather. |
I am used to SuSE on our servers. Partially I administer it with Yast and/or KDE, but hé, it's just normal Linux! Most of the time I'm still poking around in config files for streamlining the systems like I would do with other distro's. So you can easily administer it without the GUI. 95% of the time I use putty (secure shell client) with only a simple command prompt.
JohanFH
if you are feeling comfortable using the command line
i would reccomend you uninstall the graphical server software on your servers
as that can use up to around 200mb of ram (especially with kde and everything running)
-clay
i would reccomend you uninstall the graphical server software on your servers
as that can use up to around 200mb of ram (especially with kde and everything running)
-clay
| johanfh wrote: |
| Partially I administer it with Yast and/or KDE, but hé, it's just normal Linux! Most of the time I'm still poking around in config files for streamlining the systems like I would do with other distro's. So you can easily administer it without the GUI. 95% of the time I use putty (secure shell client) with only a simple command prompt. |
| fiendskull9 wrote: |
| if you are feeling comfortable using the command line
i would reccomend you uninstall the graphical server software on your servers as that can use up to around 200mb of ram (especially with kde and everything running) -clay |
Of course, some of us use Linux for our primary desktop and would NEVER want to be without our KDE...
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