On Nov 17, 2001, 10:58 (-0500) Green, Aaron wrote:
> I agree with the minor differences, but obviously, some focus more on
> the personal desktop (ex. Mandrake). I'm just wondering who is focusing
> on ease of use, where as I look at Red Hat as a mix of ease of use,
> stability, and power. Completely opposite of ease of use is slackware
> and debian.
>
> > ----------
> > From: Brian Ashe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:21 AM
> > To: Green, Aaron
> > Subject: Re: OT: SuSE review
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > [ ... ]
... some reasons *for me* I probably never will touch SuSe even
with my fingertips:
1:
As far as I understood it, you cannot easily download a free complete
SuSe version as you still can do this with RedHat.
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2001-Apr/0010.html
According to
http://www.linuxiso.org/suse.html
" ... Intel 7.3 Live Evaluation iso (runs from cd only) ... "
2:
But the fact you can use a real SuSe system only -- as it seems -- if you
have enough money to pay for it is not the most important compared to the
following:
"YaST is not free software" (Note: Yast is property of Suse)
http://lists.cglug.org/pipermail/members/2000q3/000022.html
Their Yast license basically says you can change the Yast source, but
you're not allowed to sell it without "written consent of SuSE GmbH", but
Suse is allowed to *sell* your edited version:
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/linux/distributions/SuSE/7.2/COPYRIGHT.yast
" ... SuSE GmbH reserves the right to accept parts or all amendments of a
modified version of YaST into the official version of YaST free of
charge. The Licensee has no bearing on this. ... "
And this exactly is why I say Suse have given up more or less the idea of
Free Software, with the consequence, that I advise everybody interested in
it to buy every possible Linux distro she or he wants to test *except* the
Suse one.
Bye
Wolfgang
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