Is Suse good?

[mikey62]

did not like mandrake. Gave it to my garbage man who uses linux. thus maybe I am cynic here.

but I like redhat 8.0 on one of my boxes and want to see what suse is like on another box of mine.

I am an average user.

any input and comparisons welcome.

thanks

Mikey

 

[RhythmAce]

OK - but you go first. What didn't you like about mandrake. I'm not trying to be a smartass, I just think that there is so much in common with most distros, that you could get thousands of posts saying "Gee I like Red Hat cuz it gots kde".

 

[manarth]

mikey62 - welcome to the 'my linux is better than yours' debate.

I favour debian / slackware, because you get a slim CLI witrh the ability to install a vast amount of software. Of course, you have to know how to configure it

The GUIs are good for starters, and for those who need to get cracking rapidly, these distros are great.

You decide! Any questions, please ask away.

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[majordomo]

You said that you are an average user.
So, i think that you can not say:
&quot;mandrake is bad, rh is good, suse is good&quot;
i used rh and now i use slack: both are ok!
will your sistem be good, depends on you!
i think that suse, mandrake and rh are the best
for beginers! suse with YAST is great. but if you
want to see &quot;how it works&quot; slack/debian are great.
if you don't, install suse, mandrake or rh!
best regards
[m]

 

[TheBigBasicQ]

I favor RedHat Linux. I've been using it since v6.2 came out. And I think it is one of the easiest distros to operate. Mandrake is supposedly easier to use. But as a Linux user I feel that Linux will make you upset many times. You will take time to understand what those errors mean. But eventually you will get used to it =P.

I vote for RedHat 9!

Nobody is perfect =(
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I am nobody =D

 

[flugh]

I have to give Mandrake on a the desktop a nod here, although I'm really looking forward to the OS written in quickbasic mentioned in thread619-734476 ;-)

Reasons for my nod: everytime I've installed it, it's worked without any prodding. There's a little polish on the desktop. Things just worked for me.

Now that my Mandrake box is playing server though, I'm starting to get a bit aggravated. So the Debian netinstall CD will be deployed soon ;-)

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JBR

 

[mikey62]

Alright, I started the caldron boiling here with all the linux flavors in the pot. But which to dine on? I did not like mandrake [yes you are right here] because of my particular sys not agreeing with it. I guess my next question is what advantage in ghrapics, sound, drivers, does suse have if any over redhat 8.0.

I am learning and will try others as well to see what best suits my personality towards linux.

thanks all!

stir away

Mikey

 

[TheBigBasicQ]

IMHO if you want a balance of everything - for example I am not much of a gamer. But I do play some games sometimes. I am a developer(primarily) and secondarily I surf the internet. Thirdly I require a small office suite. Also, my computer acts as a server sometimes for my office. All of these requirements are met by RedHat Linux 9. So its a pretty much well balanced OS =). Don't go in for Caldera or any SCO Linux version. They have gone mad =(

Nobody is perfect =(
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I am nobody =D

 

[iolair]

I have used the following and found them all to have their own strengths. FreeBSD, Suse, RedHat, and Solaris. I am most familiar with RedHat, so I kind of prefer it for that reason. It's easy to configure if you know what you're doing. If you're looking for eye candy and slick installs, Suse is the way to go. I installed Suse recently, and really like it, but I find it difficult to &quot;customize&quot;. Suse is KDE centric, whereas RedHat is Gnome, or now, Bluecurve centric. It really depends on what you want to do.

Iolair MacWalter

 

[jmtjet]

After using all of the major players(Redhat-Mandrake and now SuSE) I like SuSE the best. I'm currently using SuSE 9.0. After I installed SuSE it foung drivers for all of my hardware and peripheral devices. I'm even able to use my Sandisk Smartmedia card reader without a problem. To add or remove programs is a snap with Yast. So I'm casting my vote for SuSE 9.0.

 

[mikey62]

how does yast work? I am waiting on my software arrival.

does it recognize the program when you try to install it? or do you open up yast and then select the downloaded program to install?

curious,

mikey

 

[jsauce]

I'm still using SuSe 7.2 with kernel 2.2.22 I like it so much.

John D. Saucier
jsauce@magicguild.com
Certified Technician
Network Administrator

 

[Chacalinc]

If you think on it, all distros are good, if you have knowlegment, you can customize everything and make linux as you want it... where could be the big difference: how to setup devices?, have the distro all the drivers needed for your PC?, what commands are needed to install/config software? how to deal with dependences? but the kernel is the same!!! (ask to Linus Torval he he he)

I like RH... but I'm running Debian. This is because I had problems trying to install RH on my PC (drivers problem) and with Debian I had no problem!

Something that I love of Debian is &quot;apt-get&quot;. RH9 has something like apt-get now, it's very confortable.

The good thing on RedHat and Suse: they have a Corporation behind where you can get &quot;formal&quot; support as HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, etc.

 

[snt]

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jmtjet (TechnicalUser) Jan 7, 2004
After using all of the major players(Redhat-Mandrake and now SuSE) I like SuSE the best. I'm currently using SuSE 9.0. After I installed SuSE it foung drivers for all of my hardware and peripheral devices. I'm even able to use my Sandisk Smartmedia card reader without a problem. To add or remove programs is a snap with Yast. So I'm casting my vote for SuSE 9.0.
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I have one of those readers also. Coulfd you tell me how you got it working?

-SNT