Suse

[Matthew Freeland]

I use SuSE on both my personal server and my laptop.  I love it.  I've tried 
Mandrake, Redhat, and SuSE, and SuSE is what I've stuck with.  The hardware 
detection is great.  It also seems a lot more polished and refined than other 
distributions.  Everything just works.  The only qualm I had was trying to 
get DVD playing to work, as SuSE provides crippled players for legal reasons.  
I run it as a server for apache, telnet, ssh, sendmail, and ftp, and it was 
very easy to setup.  I would highly recommend it.  Also, SuSE does allow 
users to install the the OS on multiple machines, and the update service is 
free on all computers it is installed upon.  I tried the latest version of 
Redhat and really hated it.  I would go SuSE.

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 19:22, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> I'm thinking of setting up SuSe on my boys computer that is now running
> Redhat. I'm NOT looking for redhat vs Suse - but what anyone knows is
> lacking from Suse.
>
> What I don't get is Suse's update policy. Can you install on more than one
> computer and still update the packages? Or do you have to purchase a
> separate setup of each computer? I also like having redhat update service -
> is suses' ccomparable?
>
> I've used Redhat for some years now as servers and my kids desktops - but
> Redhat seems to have abandoned KDE. Seeing that the file browser is the
> most important deal in a desktop, KDE is my pick after spending quite a bit
> of time with both of them.
>
> I'd also like to know if anyone has had luck running Suse as servers.