New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
The latest version of the company's home user operating system will be the first to support AMD's Athlon 64 processor, and will include a test version of the 2.6 Linux kernel, according to Holger Dyroff, SuSE's general manager, Americas."
Posted Sep 30, 2003 15:38 UTC (Tue)
by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
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Viel vergnügen!
Posted Sep 30, 2003 18:12 UTC (Tue)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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I'm a Debian user and I've seen nothing to make me consider switching, but if I was going to jump I'd probably go for RedHat. (I thought I posted this earlier, I must have previewed it and closed the window, d'oh)
Posted Sep 30, 2003 18:51 UTC (Tue)
by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 10:13 UTC (Wed)
by garloff (subscriber, #319)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 12:20 UTC (Wed)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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...and then you don't give any info to back up your statement.
Posted Oct 1, 2003 14:50 UTC (Wed)
by garloff (subscriber, #319)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 13:13 UTC (Wed)
by miannac (guest, #11411)
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Even if I understand that they want to push their Linux server family (which is definitely more expensive), I think that they should provide ways to use their standard/professional version to build routers/file servers, firewall, web server even on lowend systems. There will be still place for their family server for those custmers that want easy to use VPN, Firewall, Encryption, etc. See my previous comment for a brief description of existing issues on Suse 8.2 - http://lwn.net/Articles/51536/ Am I the only one that feels in this way? Ianna
Posted Oct 1, 2003 15:09 UTC (Wed)
by duck (guest, #4444)
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It sounds really promising - I mainly use redhat, but have followed suse as well, having used 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2, noting the successive improvements and refinements, and the things they do better than the competition - sounds like suse 9 may be the jumping off point for me, as the advantages become undeniable.New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
The differences between the two aren't really that big. I'd go with RedHat because they contribute a lot more back to the community.New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
That's the wonderful thing about choice - more power to you!
New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
> The differences between the two aren't really that big. I'd go with RedHat New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
> because they contribute a lot more back to the community.
I don't think this is true.
That the differences are small?New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
That I'd choose RedHat?
Or that RedHat give more back to the community?
OK, I was too terse. New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
> That the differences are small?
Actually, my comment was targetting the other point.
Let me comment on this anyways.
What a distributor adds to what's there in the open source is to make things
work together, add a few needed bugfixes and last-not-least make the software
easily installable and administratable. And it offers installation support and
security (and bugfix) updates.
Both have done a good job, I think.
But I don't think that both have gone equally far with offering a consistent
installation and configuration tool. And I see that one of them is giving support
(security updates) for a longer time than the other.
> That I'd choose RedHat?
Why should I doubt this ;-)
> Or that RedHat give more back to the community?
I don't quite buy this point and that was what I was referring to initially.
I can see that RedHat tries to tell everyone that Linux is RedHat.
Which is not true.
There are plenty of kernel hackers, compiler developers, glibc developers,
KDE hackers that work for other companies. SuSE is supporting many of
them. Maybe they don't make as big of a fuss about it.
Lately Suse is ignoring low end systems in standard/professional distribution. They are good desktop distribution but not very much suited for server implementation.New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
Hmmm, New SuSE version coming next month (NewsForge)
I agree that SuSE is slow on low end systems - but why do you buy a Distribution with
thousands of RPMs if all you need is a MiniLinux?
Have you tried text-based installation?
And I also agree that SuSE loads lots of things that make it start quite slow. But you
can switch off services very easily using yast. On my Desktop I do not need
hardware detection and hot-plugging, so I switched it off. When you fine-tune te system
it really makes a difference. What I like (a lot) about SUSE, is that I can switch on
nearly everything if I want, it is all included :)
And it runs nicley as a server OS on "modern" Hardware, even the professional
Distribution (not the Enteprise Edition).
regards
Peter