Payne Stanifer wrote:
>
> Will someone give me a quick rundown of the advantages and disadvantages of
> the other major distros of Linux (ie. Debian, Suse, etc.). I would
> appreciate it.
> Payne
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Hey, distro bashing *grin*.
So here is my *personal* view on Debian and SuSE (only distro's I ran for
a considerable while):
Debian:
- Installation very time-comsuming and requires quite some knowledge,
package tool awkward to use, long release cycles, users tend to
pontificate about political issues (GPL and stuff), own packageformat
+ perhaps the most stable distro out there, maintained and edited by its
users, *very* competent user base, own packageformat (is - IMO - better
than RPM, packages are usually better maintained and faster updated), high
security awareness.
Some sort of elite distro.
SuSE:
- heavy 'adjustments' to init-process and file hierarchy, many packages
incompatible to RedHat(TM) based distros, big-brother-like and ugly
configuration tool, internationalization still somewhat flaky
- excellently documented, the best help *system* I've seen so far (we
still even haven't got one :-\), comes with Gigabytes of software. Linus
uses it at home ;-)
Good distro for people who just want to work with Linux and don't want to
be bothered with internals
HTH
tom
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