Suse

[David Ryman]

I have SuSE running on 350MHz, 933MHZ and 2x1GHz machines. I started with 
RH5.2 some years ago, but with the linux learning curve and pressure of work, 
I postponed diving into the wonderful world of Linux until late last year. I 
also ran SuSE on an IBM netfinity for several months with little difficulty.
The 3 machines I have are used daily for project work as well as the normal 
personal stuff like email, web browsing.

As I have more than 1 system, SuSE recommended downloading 8.2 and installing 
via NFS. I still haven't figured out how to upgrade the system housing the 
download (as they are not ISO images), but I will eventually.
I can't say that SuSE is better than anything else, as I've not tried them 
all, but I can say I'm very pleased with SuSE and hope to continue using it.

I also bought a copy of SuSE 7.0 recently, not to use, but at $1.50 from 
Microcenter I couldn't resist!!! Looks great on the bookshelf.

GO SuSE!

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 00:40, Matthew Freeland wrote:
> 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.
>

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David Ryman
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