Opensuse Vs. Fedora

[yousaf465]

Which one is better both Gnome.

[mmarif4u]

1st:
openSUSE forum = Definitely answer will be openSUSE.

Both are great distros out there. IMO openSUSE has edge on fedora in some user friendly environment.
Fedora also is not that bad. All depends on user choice.
My 1st choice will be openSUSE, then Mandriva, then Ubuntu, then Fedora, then mint.

[Ramkatral]

Well, Fedora is a powerful distro to be sure. I tried it on every version since 9. However, opensuse 11.1 was the only one to manage to get me to finally let go of Windows all together. Fedora is great, it's powerful, and I love the ext4 system of F11. However, suse has the edge on it in terms of the desktop, IMO. I have to say YaST rocks my socks. It's the single greatest implementaton into the desktop to me. If Fedora had their own YaST, I might be more friendly towards it. And being that I LOVE KDE > Gnome, suse is more functional for me. Fedora's KDE leaves something to be desired. Just my two cents.

[yousaf465]

Well but I had problems with live Usb. Still unable to run it

[TaraIkeda]

Originally Posted by mmarif4u

1st:
openSUSE forum = Definitely answer will be openSUSE.

Both are great distros out there. IMO openSUSE has edge on fedora in some user friendly environment.
Fedora also is not that bad. All depends on user choice.
My 1st choice will be openSUSE, then Mandriva, then Ubuntu, then Fedora, then mint.

My order would be (easiest to use for new users to more complex) PClinux, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mandriva with Fedora a dead last, OpenSuse and Ubuntu are actually kind of tied though but I think Ubuntu does have a slight advantage over OpenSuse but not by much.

[mmarif4u]

Originally Posted by TaraIkeda

My order would be (easiest to use for new users to more complex) PClinux, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mandriva with Fedora a dead last, OpenSuse and Ubuntu are actually kind of tied though but I think Ubuntu does have a slight advantage over OpenSuse but not by much.

You are right. For the new user, i will also recommend Ubuntu and PClinux, after that Mandriva and openSUSE. But not fedora. Mint can also be in that list. Bcoz its not that much different from Ubuntu.

[TaraIkeda]

Originally Posted by mmarif4u

You are right. For the new user, i will also recommend Ubuntu and PClinux, after that Mandriva and openSUSE. But not fedora. Mint can also be in that list. Bcoz its not that much different from Ubuntu.

I personally rank OpenSuse higher then Mandriva though, mainly because OpenSuse has more community repositories up front and its a little easier to keep updated.

[srschifano]

I've been playing around with the latest fedora on my laptop, and I must say it is a very good release. Unfortunately, I've been spoiled by YaST and so have been running into a lot of frustration trying to get everything set up the good'ol lizard way rather than learning the Fedora way. Human nature I suppose.

I do love Fedora's network connections applet though.

The GUI programs for Repository and package management in SUSE is, imho, much better than Fedora. While I've been downloading programs in Fedora I've learned I have to mind the version numbers; multiple versions of the same package show up in the list.

Regarding the strengths and weaknesses of both distros, I think they end up coming out equal. If they weren't equal, they wouldn't be two of the top Linux distros out there (and their big-brother corporate equivalents wouldn't be duking it out as ferociously).

[panther86]

Opensuse, fedora just doesn't fit for what i need.

order: 1 (would be mandriva but the company is terrible im boycotting) Opensuse,Xandros, PCLinuxOS,Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora

[kwikness]

I <3 Slackware. It's challenging.. but maybe that's why I like it.