openSUSE is widely recognized for its polished look and its tight, clean integration especially with KDE. It has long been positioned as a "cutting-edge" distribution. It has security, management, and value-add features not in most others. It is also actually easier to use. openSUSE users take a lot for granted with YaST and all its modules; over in Ubuntu land there is a whole lot of backfilling done from the command line. (Ubuntu's only real, but nonetheless significant, advantages are its marketing and the size of its active community). Once set up, openSUSE is exceptionally stable. Release cycle and support life commitment. IMHO the "98%" under-states the differences. Yes, somewhat similar to Fedora and Mandriva; but different in ways that are important to users. And a lot of differences from Debian, not to speak of Slackware or Gentoo. On Wednesday 29 October 2008 05:08:23 pm Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hey all,
One of the questions I am asked frequently: What makes openSUSE unique among Linux distros?
I think it'd be good to have a list of benefits / advantages to openSUSE. Note, not looking to say we're "better" than other distros, even if we are ;-) just how are we actually *different* since we ship about 98% the same software?
Obviously, I've given this some thought, but I suspect that more heads are better than just mine on this one. As we're approaching the 11.1 release, I know that this question will come up again quite a bit.
Thoughts?
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/
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