Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 03, 2004 11:48 PM
I've been a Red Hat user since version 8 came out, and automatically upgraded to 9 when it was released. I went shopping for a new distro when RH sent me an email detailing the EOL for Red Hat Linux 9. When I started looking at Suse 9, I was floored at how easy it was to configure. RH's configuration tools are so scattered and confusing that I never used them, instead opting for pulling up a text editor and changing the raw<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc files.
Suse's Yast tool is well worth the price of the distro, IMHO. It makes setting up hardware and services simple, and straightforward. I still edit<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc files now and then, but nowhere near as often with Suse as with Red Hat.
As for "Fedora", I, too, object to them using the name of another Open Source group that was around before them. It's nice to think you're so big you can trample on the rights of others! Red Hat has all but said that Fedora Core is a permanent beta used by "hobbyists" for the benefit of their paying Enterprise customers. If I hadn't found Suse, I would have been tempted to try White Box Linux (which is based on the RHEL source code). If I wanted an operating system that was in permanent beta, I'd stick with Windows!
Oh, one other thing. Red Hat Linux doesn't recognize all of my hardware (e.g., Promise raid drive, and LCD monitor), while Suse 9 does without problems or complaints. It even installed the correct drivers for my nVidia card without my doing anything.
I can't see myself ever going back to Red Hat. It's not good enough, doesn't meet my needs, and has a lousy attitude towards the Open Source community, in my opinion.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 03, 2004 11:48 PMSuse's Yast tool is well worth the price of the distro, IMHO. It makes setting up hardware and services simple, and straightforward. I still edit<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc files now and then, but nowhere near as often with Suse as with Red Hat.
As for "Fedora", I, too, object to them using the name of another Open Source group that was around before them. It's nice to think you're so big you can trample on the rights of others! Red Hat has all but said that Fedora Core is a permanent beta used by "hobbyists" for the benefit of their paying Enterprise customers. If I hadn't found Suse, I would have been tempted to try White Box Linux (which is based on the RHEL source code). If I wanted an operating system that was in permanent beta, I'd stick with Windows!
Oh, one other thing. Red Hat Linux doesn't recognize all of my hardware (e.g., Promise raid drive, and LCD monitor), while Suse 9 does without problems or complaints. It even installed the correct drivers for my nVidia card without my doing anything.
I can't see myself ever going back to Red Hat. It's not good enough, doesn't meet my needs, and has a lousy attitude towards the Open Source community, in my opinion.
Oh, and it's not Trolling to tell it like it is!
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