Suse Vs Redhat Vs Other

Hi.
Is there anywhere around the net where I can find comparative information of SUSE vs Redhat vs other Linux distributions regarding features and ease of use?

I find Novell's relationship with M$ bothersome ... And while I am becoming more familiar with SUSE I'm also interested in other "Flavors" of Linux as a day to day computing solution.

My own experience with Linux is limited to only SUSE. I know there must be members here who have used other distributions of Linux. What is your experience? What did you like, and didn't like about the others?
I'm really not interested in running a server or anything fancy like that, just a desktop OS for general use.

Thanks
-Steve

I tested a lot of them, I think SLED is hard to beat

Distrowatch.com often publishes distro evaluations when releases come out.

I second ken yap's suggestion to check with Distrowatch. There is plenty of information to be found there, as well as links to just about anything you may need in your research.

My first and favorite distro is openSUSE. This is the penultimate Linux distro, but not everyone needs a Rolls Royce. I also experiment with a few others. From personal experience, I can suggest Linux Mint, PCLinusOS, and Mandriva as being good for a test-drive. None of these will leave you stranded on the shoulder of I-285 at 5:00 by any means. (Georgia reference to the highway system for those of you elsewhere.)

If you want to test out something absolutely full of fun, frolic, and festivity, download the Live CD of Linux Mint. The Main edition, Daryna, has a GNOME desktop similar to the openSUSE GNOME. You will not be disappointed.

Personally, I prefer Ubuntu 8.04 at the moment ( . Booo!!! Hisss!!! :lol: ). Second, openSUSE 10.3 and third, Fedora 8. However, that may all change (2nd and 3rd) tonight (burning Fedora 9 as we speak). May change again when openSUSE 11 is released (really looking forward to this release ). That's what I love about Linux, there's always a new distro around the corner.

If you've got a powerfull enough system, I would recommend installing Virtualbox. That way, you can trial as many distro's as you like . As mentioned, visit DistroWatch as that give you an idea of which distro's are popular.

Personally, I prefer Ubuntu 8.04 at the moment ( . Booo!!! Hisss!!! :lol: ). [/b]

So noted. Your account has been deleted.



Cheers,
KV

ps. Variety really is the spice of life, so rock on...

My personal feeling is that most of the modern distributions are pretty similar in terms of ease-of-use. YAST seems to me to be the best of the automated set-up/configuration tools.

Mandrake/Mandriva used to be the best in that area, but I think YAST got better than Drake somewhere around 9.1 I certainly like the package manager better than urpmi. Also, there seemed to me to be a lot of pressure from mandriva to purchase a subscription every year. Still, Mandriva is a good enough distribution (though as my German friends constantly point out to me, "It's French!").

I've always thought of Red Hat as Mandriva with a less polished kde implementation, weaker set-up tools, and less pretty artwork. That having been said, I haven't used red hat since like version 6.

YMMV

And here's a link hot off of slashdot:

http://www.crn.com/software/207800087

There's a great tool for comparing distros @ Polishlinux.org. Click Choose OS from the main menu.

You can choose between distributions and view a list of them side by side. IMO only downside is that you can only get two distros listed at a time.

Over all, I like that site as it has a lot of entry level info on Linux. Ofcourse, there are many many other sites alike .

- Antti

There's a great tool for comparing distros @ Polishlinux.org. Click Choose OS from the main menu.

You can choose between distributions and view a list of them side by side. IMO only downside is that you can only get two distros listed at a time.

Over all, I like that site as it has a lot of entry level info on Linux. Ofcourse, there are many many other sites alike .

- Antti
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That's an ok site, I liked a few of the articles I read there.

However, the distro compare tool seems a little out of date. For openSuse, they mention very slow boot times, which points at 10.2 to me, and for Fedora, they talk about core 5 and core 6.

Took the "choose a distro for me" quiz and was led to....


openSuse

Go figure!