[KLUG Members] Distro distro ...

[Bill Katsma]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:18, Bruce Smith wrote:
> Not being completely happy with Fedora because of a few annoying (but
> minor) bugs, I started looking at other distributions.  I looked at and
> rejected a few distros for a number of reasons (I'll discuss them on
> advocacy if anyone is interested - not here), then I tried SuSE 9.0 ...

Yeah I would be interested in hearing what you have came up with the
other distros.  I would also like to hear more on what you did not like
about Fedora.  You may recall a I posted about a month ago asking about
other distros as well.  I broke down and decided to just continue with
Fedora and so far so good.  The only thing that is bothering me is
getting acpi working but I do not think it is a fedora thing that is
more OE (operator error)
> 
> Now I'd like someone to talk me out of switching all of my Linux boxes
> to SuSE.  Please help, it would save me a lot of time NOT to convert.
> 
> SuSE seems to be far ahead of Fedora/Redhat in a number of areas.  I
> first noticed a lot of hardware support I've never seen before, like
> Win-modems, TV Tuner cards, and ALSA configured sound cards, right from
> the installer.
> 
> I also noticed more software features, like XFS, NTFS, encrypted
> filesystems, answering machines, and more (like being able to setup
> masquerading in the firewall setup).
> 

Is suse rpm based or at least rpm capable?  or does it use some other
package system?

> To download updates, you don't need to register for an account or
> anything like Redhat's "up2date" requires.  Just point it to a ftp
> server or mirror and update.  You can even schedule automatic updates
> from the same screen.
Have you tried yum? The first time I tried Yum I was amazed as I
installed a package that I was missing some dependencies well yum
figured them all out and downloaded them as well.  It left me asking why
did I not do this before.  How many times have you went to install an
rpm and realized you need something else and that package need another
package etc..  Well yum figures it all out. I have up2date configured as
well on my fedora box where all I had to do was add some rpm
repositories (ftp sites) and no need to register with RH.

I can share my .conf files if anyone is interested.

> 
> A lot of the "extra" software I always downloaded for RH/FD was
> available right on the install CD's.  Like Adobe Acrobat reader,
> OpenVPN, Firebird, APC UPS monitoring daemons, and more ... (did I
> mention ALSA already? :)
> 
> OK, so what's missing that's going to bite me later?  HELP!!!
> 
> Side note:  Best Buy in Portage has in stock:  SuSE 9,0, the new
> commercial Redhat workstation distro, and even Sun's StarOffice.
> 
>  - BS
> 
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