On 09/11/05, Bjorn Tore Sund
The one thing you're missing is what I didn't say; we are in the process of standardizing and centralizing our linux admin from having three mid-sized departments run their own client admin (using CentOS/RHEL, Fedora, and SuSE, respectively) into _one_ central system running one of these for all three departments and quite a few others.
Redhat is far superior to SuSE in one major sphere: the support from commercial software products. From the sysadmin view, and especially when using a client management system as opposed to the manual single-machine tools, the two are essentially identical. Thus the user's experience becomes a central deciding point. And expecially as long as we judge KDE to be superior to Gnome, and SuSE's KDE setup to be superior to any others, _that_ is the reason to go for SuSE. If the SuSE KDE setup deteriorates we're better off with a default KDE setup, which can be done on any Linux distribution. At that point what remains is that Redhat currently does a better Gnome setup (and this is likely to stay the situation for a while, until SuSE gets its act together) and having a good alternative for users to choose is good - and the above mentioned support from third party commercial software vendors.
How they are getting similar? The OpenSuSE "community-driven" silliness, even though they _know_ how long it took before the Fedora project got its act together. And now the standardisation on Gnome, where Redhat has several years head start, to the probable detriment of their KDE support.
Bjørn --
Ah, in that case I now see where you are coming from. But, how about this. You are happy with KDE on SuSE at the moment. If SuSE lessen their development of KDE (integration) would it not be possible, and probably preferable to you and your department, to craft your own tailored version of KDE rather than having to use RH/Fedora's already tweaked version? That way you get the best of both worlds. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR