On Saturday 04 June 2011 17:51:12 Di Pe wrote:
* About 3x more binary packages are available for Ubuntu, including scientific applications.
This is illusion. For openSUSE you can find much software in OBS and also use packages from other distributions (or rebuild them in OBS yourself if they are incompatible). For example, you can just instal binary package with Open Reduce from Scientific Linux.
* Ubuntu is hardware-certified for more Laptops we use. (Gnome and Unity have better support for ‘encrypted wifi’)
* Enterprise "Long Term Support" (LTS) version is actually the standard disto with longer support cycles and is free (gets maintenance updates for 3 years on the desktop version and 5 years on the server version / Suse SLES subscription $350/year)
At expense of up-to-date software. It is much more difficult to install new software on older Ubuntu than on older openSUSE. Also note that Ubuntu's support is very limited, they reject fixing some bugs in LTS even if there is already a fix upstream. Their support for LTS is mostly limited to kernel updates.
* 6-month release cycle indicates that Ubuntu focuses more on keeping software up-to-date.
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