Hi!
I’m just curious to know what make you like SuSE, and Linux. I know that’s probably simple question with biiig answer, so let’s everyone restrict him/herself to just 3 reasons.
Linux - I probably like most it’s very customization Unix likeness.
SuSE - I’m new to it, so definitely YaST, and all that it leads to, is very impressive for me.
SuSE - I’m also very impress of how my computer look like one single solid system, which in general trying to help me to do what I want, and yet still every part of it is customizable.
Linux - many reasons; I find it a better UNIX-like than most other UNIX/UNIX-like systems, open source and highly modular, good to excellent performance, stability, etc
SUSE - many reasons; German engineering, polishness, YaST, etc
One can argue against all three however
In terms of package management truth be told I have seen better package managers on other linuxes, however YaST2 and zypper are very good front and backends wont deny.
I am more of a apt/synaptic fan though
As for KDE integration, actually so far it looks like Mandriva has a better KDE 4 in my experience.
On openSUSE 11.2 I had KDE 4.3 crash on me many times, so far only once with Mandriva.
Plus I have heard arch with KDEmod is pretty awesome too though I cannot say so myself as I dont use arch.
YaST is a good tool though I cannot argue much against it, but I know a few people who might say otherwise.
Well, according to the thread title and the OP I was supposed to list **my **top 3 in regards to SUSE.
While I consider Mandriva to be equal to SUSE when it comes to KDE integration it doesn’t have YaST, which the more I use it the more I appreciate it.
As for package management, I was mainly speaking of package management through YaST which IMO is hands down the best GUI package manager although once again Mandriva’s is also very good.
I don’t like the top 3 restriction, so I’ll just list my main reasons and others can pick their top 3.
The things I like about openSUSE are:
- superb 3rd party multimedia packaged by [PackMan](http://packman.links2linux.org/) packagers for openSUSE
- openSUSE's excellent [KDE](http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_Team) implementation
- openSUSE's [YaST](http://en.opensuse.org/YaST) configuration software
- openSUSE's community (forums, IRC chat ... )](http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate)
- potential of the new openSUSE [Build Service](http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service) and [SUSE Studio](http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Studio)
*] openSUSE's implementation of the [Free Software Philosophy](http://en.opensuse.org/Free_Software_Philosophy)
More than 3 is definitely not by the rules, so you should supply more links as “payoff”
Btw, one of the reasons got “huge” draw back - still there’s no 11.2 option in SUSE Studio
I would add that the possibility to have a stable base system with up-to-date component easily (ie, 11.2 with latest KDE) is a great advantage of openSUSE.
As oldcpu already mentioned all that, so not much left on the bowl for us to say. But anyway let me do it my way then:
if(OS == Linux && Linux == openSUSE){
echo “YaST”;
echo “KDE Integration”;
echo “Packman”;
echo “Add more to your choice, if you don’t mind”;
}
else
{
echo “Any thing left to mention in else”;
}
ASA Mandriva concern, i used it already…Its good distro… but slow and again very slow compare to openSUSE. So KDE integration alone doesn’t make it more favorable than openSUSE for me.
YaST
The green lizard theme thing
Copious amounts of documentation - the old thick manuals that used to come with the boxed sets, now the wiki and the official PDF manuals.
