If you're refering to the company, and not to the marketing when you say they 'started long before suse', I would have to correct you:
SuSE (the company) has existed and distributed Linux for longer than Red Hat (the company).
Cool , never knew that , and I am quit surprised by that. It just shows how well Redhat markets its self. I had allways "assumed" that SuSe was newer. Most likley cause I heard od RH way before Suse.
They were the first to realy hit retial shelves. So they do have a big edge on "hype"
Its more than just "hype" They realy "market" there product , you see refrences to it every where. You see books on it every where. It realy has a lot of market visability. Much more than suse.
I will admit, though, that Red Hat has the edge in marketing terms... SuSE are starting to get their act together with marketing now, which is good.
Yep they are improving on it. Of cource most peaple under estamate work of mouth. i suspect that and the Suse rep for yast and the Roclk solid mailing list are what realy keep users coming back. Once that word of mouth gets some major momentum , wach out. I think were getting there right closesly. I have allways recamended suse , Just pionting out that it has six cds comapered to tother distros with only one or two cds. Then tell them you would have to download all the other apps you want to install. Its also good to look ath the other distros and see what they are doing , and how they are uping the ante and then asking suse to implement more features. They (suse) must go nuts with that. But is is part and parcel to evolving and changing with the times. I plan on slaping Corel and WP Office3 2000 on one of my boxes to check it out. Tried a version of Mandrake and nver made it throgh the install. That was a version or too older than whats curent. All those $2.00 demos are sometimes tempting.
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