Face-off: Fedora Core 1 versus the free version of SuSE 9.0 (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

NewsForge compares Fedora Core 1 to SuSE Linux 9.0. "While Linux still has a long way to go in the arena of security, both distros have done some very good things that deserve mentioning. In both cases unnecessary services are initially turned off, a firewall is installed by default, and patch management is handled with intelligence and grace. SuSE has a slight edge over Fedora in their firewall tool, and Fedora has a slight edge in patch management."

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He needs to learn kickstart

Posted Dec 22, 2003 21:34 UTC (Mon) by freeio (guest, #9622) [Link] (2 responses)

For someone wishing to setup and run multiple identical systems in a classroom, kickstart is a tool well worth learning. RH/fedora installs make a kickstart file which can be used to build subsequent systems with much less manual interaction.

autoyast

Posted Dec 22, 2003 22:36 UTC (Mon) by me_go (guest, #18045) [Link] (1 responses)

autoyast does kikstart's job with SUSE

autoyast

Posted Dec 23, 2003 0:53 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]

mandrake has that save-package-selection thing when you're done installing... never used it...