At 2004-10-19T14:29:21+1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> I would be interested in the reasons that you would choose Fedora Core
> over SuSE. I use Fedora Core exclusively (now) but that is partly out
> of familiarity and a deep affection for GNOME :)
- Lack of a public bug database
- Questionable quality control at times (POSIX AIO in SuSE 9.1/SLES 9,
broken large file support in SLES 8 on certain platforms)
- Some of the patches that get into core components as shipped is quite
scary
- Desktop integration and functionality has large holes in places,
though this is arguably the fault of the desktop environment
itself--but some of the value that the commercial distributions is in
the integration
- I've found the business-hours commercial support to be slow in
responding, and often the responses are confusing
- Their commercial support offerings are somewhat confusing in
comparison to Red Hat's enterprise offerings
- If you don't have a support contract and find a bug in their product
that you want to report (even if you personally need it fixed), there
doesn't seem to be a way to report it
Of course, SuSE has its good points too, and Red Hat has its bad. No
matter what the subject, it's fairly easy to reel off a list of
complaints. ;-)
Cheers,
-mjg
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