Upgrading to Suse

Riichard · 02-25-2004, 05:42 AM

I have heard that Redhat9 support will be discontinued soon.
I am considering buying Suse.
From what I have read, it seems more suited to the home user than Redhat.
Ive looked at what comes with Suse pro and am impressed.
I want a linux distro that has nore GUI tools for setting up hardware, this imho is lacking in Redhat.Does Suse have a graphical rpm install/uninstall tool?
What advantages does it have over Redhat?

Ice9 · 02-25-2004, 06:22 AM

Suse isn't a bad choice for a desktop distro, but if you're looking for a gui driven distro and you're willing to shell out a couple of bucks you should take a look at Xandros.
It come with plenty of stuff pre-configured, plus you have apt-get installed and ready to go.
Also it's Debian-based so no more rpm dependency hell!!!

Riichard · 02-25-2004, 07:15 AM

Xandros looks interesting but their websites serverly lacking info,
Like what does it come with?
Suse manage to provide all this info
http://www.suse.com/us/private/produ...dex_group.html
why cant xandros?

mdbarton · 02-25-2004, 07:31 AM

Suse support is non-existant. I submitted two questions to them I have not received an answer. (Of course I then discovered LQ where all my questions get answered!).

Ice9 · 02-25-2004, 08:05 AM

You're abslutely right, the Xandros website offers little information about the packages they ship with the distro.
However, when reading reviews you can get a pretty accurate idea of what's included.

Plus, like I said, you have apt-get and since Xandros 2 is based on Debian Testing you can install virtually every package available for Debian, and that's a lot, believe me.

Some reviews
http://www.desktopos.com/reviews.php...owcontent&id=5
http://www.madpenguin.org/Article811.html
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5665