What are the major differences between Suse and Red Hat ?

First one....

they are by two different companies

Jokes apart,
I feel they differ in their looks and applications. Both of them have a good package manager and SuSe is quite famous in europe whereas Redhat is used in most indian offices.

SuSe has more of 3-D kind of looks which appears right in the front of the eyes.
Redhat does not have much of 3-D sort of a thing though it bundles a good set of application that are compartively easy to use.

Well, there are many more...will try to find ..more specific technical details ...(if possible!) .....and post it...

Well, all of the above are true, but they are also superficial and can change at will. If you apply certain configuration changes (mainly window decoration, icon, and display manager themes), Red Hat would look like Suse and vice versa.

What I'd say is the major difference between the two is their configuration tools: Red Hat uses tiny GUIs in the order of system-config-<something> while Suse uses Yast (Yet Another Setup Tool) for the majority of configuration. Based off of several reviews I have read about Yast, it is very feature-filled but very confusing (horrible interface). Red Hat's (aka Fedora) setup tools are many in number, but well designed and accessible.

Take your pick! They are both great distributions with similar package management schemes(both use an rpm-based system which gives you the ability to use apt-get and synaptic).

ps - One other thing, Fedora is bleeding edge and everything may not work. Suse releases their distribution after things settle down a bit. This means that with Fedora you will have the latest versions and features of software, but may need to tweak a few things.

http://www.linux.pl/users/blacharz/suse/desktop.png

is one of the SuSe Screenshots I cud show to prove my statements


and here is redhat linux 9.0 screenshot!
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documen.../firstdesk.png

and I hope I am correct in one way!

As mentioned above, you can make Suse look like Redhat and vice versa. For me the main differences are where they install applications, the configuration tools available and the installation routine. Though I am a Redhat/Fedora user, I think when it comes to configuration tools, YAST is way ahead of anything that Fedora has to offer so far.

As far as GUI config tools go, Red Hat doesn't have anything close to YaST. To be quite honest however, Mandrake's Control Center does everything YaST does and isn't as convoluted. Unfortunately Mandrake/Mandriva/Whatever isn't the bleeding edge distro it used to be -- if you want the latest firefox and open office SuSE 9.3 is the way to go... I do miss Mandy's superb Drak tools though.

I agree with the Mandrake statement, but I also think that the Fedora system config tools cover a lot of what you need. Keep in mind also that the default installation doesn't put a lot of them in there, and that running KDE (instead of the default Gnome in Fedora) helps as well with configuration options (KDE has many in and of itself).

I don't have Red Hat experience but I can say that whenever I've spent hours on the command line without success, a trip to YaST almost always puts things right.

Oh, YAST has gained a lot of popularity. I thought most GNU/Linux distros have more of command line interface for installing and setting up things.

Good to hear about that in SuSe.

However, just thinking abt SuSe and Redhat, a Live CD for SuSe is under evaluation version which you cud try and find out many things.

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=2
is one URL

or
http://channels.lockergnome.com/linu...ve_cddvd.phtml

is one more...

You wud have to make a custom live CD for Redhat/Fedora.

Search LQ for details on how to make a custom live CD!

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