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Old 07-25-2010, 07:53 PM   #1
jduvall
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Distro hopping looking for help


Lately I've found my self unhappy with Ubuntu (10.04)

I'm torn between two distros.

Debian Testing:
What I like: Rolling release (replacing squeeze with testing)
Apt-Get
Repos are huge and all encompassing

openSuse 11.3
What I like: Yast is a very powerful tool
1 click installs are pretty nice
Clean professional
Easier to pull repos

Both are very good and very stable distros, openSuse has some controversy thanks to Novell but that isn't a huge issue for me. I don't harbor any ill will towards MS products

I have played around with both distros and I'm just looking for input on people that've used them more.

Thanks
 
Old 07-26-2010, 07:50 AM   #2
samnjugu
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You have narrowed it down to pretty much what it mostly comes down to, ease of having a rolling release or having a fancy one click install system. It depends on what matters more to you for me I run a rolling relese system and then just virtualise all this other fancier systems with shorter lifecycles on it. That way I can use the VM's as desktops and replace every time a new one is out, but save all my data and also run my sensitive services from the stable rolling release system.
This works fo me you just have to find what works for you.
 
  


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