Onsdag 29 oktober 2008 22:08:23 skrev Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier:
One of the questions I am asked frequently: What makes openSUSE unique among Linux distros?
Here's my list of points where I find openSUSE shines: * KDE - Best KDE "service" anywhere, hands down. * YaST - more graphical (and ncurses) system configuration tools than any other distro. Very powerful, while also easy to use. * Build service repositories. The OBS (and also Packman) makes it easy to have up to date applications, while maintaining a stable base system. I don't think any other distro has nearly as many "backports" available. * x86_64 - Very good implementation, "dual arch" support makes other distros - especially Debian-based ones - look amateurish in this space - especially for desktops. * 1-click-install - I don't think it should be used as a replacement for traditional package management, but for quick install of codecs and such it's excellent. * 24 month support - Competing distros are generally only supported for 12-18 months. * Innovation and upstream contribution - Novell/SUSE has a lot of muscle, and it doesn't just package what others create, there's real innovation and upstream involvement. * Free software friendlyness - This is generally not a quality associated with Novell/SUSE - but with the no-blobs-in-kernel-policy, clearly separated free and non-free repos, and live-cd media which have only firmware in the non-free department. * (Home) Server qualities - I generally find that openSUSE is vastly underrated as a (home) server. A lot of people don't realize the dvd installer offers a text mode/server installation, that openSUSE is SLES base, yast works in ncurses, that there are a million yast modules besides the ones installed by default, apparmor and xen integration and yast modules.. and probably other great server features I don't have a clue about. Some of the less tangible qualities I find: * Good balance between up-to-date and stable * Integrated and polished look and feel * "Professional" (SLE base) * "German engineering" * History and tradition (and experience) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org