I have run both and think they are about the same. Except: 1.) Red Hat a much higher availability of third party documentation than SuSE does. 2.) Redhat does not provide as comprehensive a package for the money Seven CD verses five for Redhat. 3.) SuSE provides better documentation with the package. 4.) Redhat uses LinuxConf and RPM SuSE use Yast. Just my thoughts pab -----Original Message----- From: Tim Prince [mailto:tprince@computer.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:17 PM To: mslpop3; 'Uzo Kemdi Anyamele'; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] War among the penguins? On Friday 10 May 2002 10:41, mslpop3 wrote:
.. I'm an IT Manager, and I've only used Windows for the past 10 years - I'm not advocating Windows by this statement! I'm finding ways to replace Windows. ....
My question is: In terms of business usefulness, what have you found to be the major difference between SuSE and RH? I don't expect everyone to give me an entire list, but at least 1 major difference would be very valuable.
I can tell you this much. I'm not necessarily advocating Red Hat over SuSE, but other companies are developing software that works on Red Hat first because it's more widely marketed than all of the other distributions. Even Dell is offering Red Hat Advanced Server. SuSE is doing something with IBM, but I don't remember exactly.
Michael
RH has a bigger share of the US market for IA than SuSE. Many organizations, particularly those doing business internationally, must support both, and both recognize the importance of inter-operability. Not knowing specifics of your situation, I can't offer much. In my job, I deal with both Windows and RH, and find the Windows interoperability features of RH less satisfactory than SuSE. At least one of the servers I run works only with RH6.2, so I would expect that any organization of any size would be using multiple versions. SuSE has more interest in supporting individual users, but both are doing an excellent job of supporting business use, and servers appear to account for most of the business demand in the US. RH has improved their support for notebooks since I was driven to switch to SuSE there. These are purely personal opinions. -- Tim Prince -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com