Hi Aaron, On Saturday, November 17, 2001, 7:17:00 AM, you babbled something about:
GA> Did anyone read the SuSE 7.3 review at The Register? I kind of got the impression that SuSE makes a better personal desktop distro, can anyone confirm or deny this that's used RH and SuSE? I'm GA> asking in the context of "a windows replacement" My wife uses Mandrake right now, but I'm about to upgrade. Unfortunately, reviews of Linux distros are very hard to really go on. I know that reading those (T. Green's first and second RH vs M$ XP and the SUSE review) it could easily seem as though SUSE has the whole thing figured out. But in reality, it is much more of a "If it installs easily, you're likely to love it" kind of thing. To put some perspective on this you can also read http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/16/1418249&mode=nocomment which basically shows that it is all in the "will your hardware work right away" category. Right now all three (Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake) are on the same version of KDE. So there would be little to gain by choosing one or the other as far as what you get in the box. But obviously, SUSE and Mandrake are more KDEcentric then RH, so they will go that way easier. It will really come down to what you are most comfortable with installing and supporting. The only real thing SUSE comes with that the others don't is Yast. I'm not a huge fan of GUI based configuration tools, but I can see where this one would be nice for people new to Linux. I can certainly not recommend against it, but I see little difference between the distros any more except the "quirks" that usually make me decide to just keep everything on one distro. Have fun, -- _________________________________________________________________ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- You don't have to swim faster than the shark... You just have to swim faster than the people you're with. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
