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SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 comingSUSE Linux Professional 9.3 comingPosted Mar 24, 2005 11:12 UTC (Thu) by wjl (guest, #26714)In reply to: SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming by publius Parent article: SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
> I've been using SuSE since 7.0.
Hmmm ok. I used SuSE Version 4 sometime in another life. Then I thought: ok, let's go with the market leader, and changed to RH.
It was when I first tested FreeBSD tho, when I thought: hey, this is something to watch! Their ports system clearly was a winner compared to RPM hell of those days.
To make it short: after dealing with SuSE versions 7.x again, because our hosted server had that preinstalled, I tried several other approaches and found (tadaaaa): Debian.
I have never again looked at something else (ok, besides the occasional look to Debian-based Live-CDs). Whenever you ask network admins or anyone who has work to get done with, you will get these same answers. It is unsurpassed.
Who cares about the latest and greates features of what-havent-you-seen when you actually *have* seen it in Sid or Experimental? Servers are happy with Woody or - if the hardware is really bleeding edge - Sarge anyway.
Ok; I acknowledge that they (SuSE) are contributing back. Things like Beagle and so on are great - but I lived so long without them now, that I can wait another month or two (or compile them myself if I *really* need them), until Debian has them. Btw: there is more reason of preferring Debian than only because of apt-get of course: here @ work, I use 'main', and that's it. No 'contrib' and esp. no 'non-free'.
So while you guys with your Enterprise-whatever *still* have at least to think about licenses, I get my work done - as well as so many other people I know.
SuSE? Red Hat? Anything? Oh yeah - we actually *do* have and use and pay for one commercial product, and that's the Astaro Firewall.
So for SuSE 9.x: thanks; not for me...
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