On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:31 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Brian K. White wrote:
The difference is in linux you have actually choices. Ubuntu has LTS releases , 5 year support, just exactly for this reason.
That is Ubuntu's biggest advantage, IMHO, and openSUSE's biggest weakness. YaST is openSUSE's best feature. It used to be the software management part but synaptic is pretty much the same now. Ubuntu's distribution upgrade and boot management is better, so where YaST really wins out for me at the moment is the disk 'partitioner'.
One little niggle here, 5 Years is for the server edition, it's 3 years on the desktop. "As you've probably seen, Canonical just released the latest LTS (long-term support) version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) exists in both desktop and server form. The desktop form will be supported for three years and the server version five years, making the OS an appealing option for enterprise users. I looked at the server edition for ServerWatch.: http://www.serverwatch.com/article.php/3885826/Ubuntu-LTS-1004-a-Linux-OS-at... It's supposed to be a breeze upping the distro from one LTS to the next. (It wasn't that bad doing the 9,04 to 9.10 to 10.04, but it sucked a good bit of bandwidth.) {snip} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org