On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, ls_venkat wrote: > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:01:18 -0000 > From: ls_venkat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [twincling] Opensuse vs Redhat Linux > > Hi, > > Anyone can explain me the difference between opensuse and redhat linux > distributions ? > > Venkatesh >
Use whichever helps you - solve your current problems, improve service for your customer, work with your existing hardware investments. Even if something is for free, time is always money ! >From a technical perspective, it is interesting to see that two groups with different focus and similar raw material (kernel, glibc, desktop environment, boot loader) created two different products. i tried OpenSuSe 10.2 first time about 4 years ago and was awestruck by its finesse, high quality fonts, seamless package management and online update with YaST, neat package dependency resolution, superb desktop environment (KDE), wide screen display support, ease of multihead configurability and polished management tools for system, network connection etc. OpenSuSe 10.2 ran beautifully on my Celeron M, 512MB system. After another round of Free Pythonic errors (like windows errors), i just dumped Redhat. Mind you, till that time i had used just about every version of Redhat since 6.0. I used to sit through working out their package dependency quagmire in my netbook and then diligently download the RPMs. All their package management tools yum, yul, yut, pup, chup, tup are all poor imitations ! The fact that Novell's unique products in the LDAP space, filesystem tools, Ximian's Redcarpet aka Zenworks, Samba/CIFS are available in the product makes OpenSuSe awesome ! Some of the key contributors to the Linux kernel are from OpenSuSe project. When you are looking for a professional grade polished Linux distribution, take a close look at OpenSuSe or even SLES (SuSe Linux Enterprise Server). Just my 10 paise + 4% VAT. thanks Saifi.
