ubuntu is quite tempting :D
Why do you think so? It has a whole bunch of different CD you need to choose from according to which desktop environment you want (Gnome, KDE, XFCE), and whether your installation will require advanced install features.
And SUSE doesn't have several CDs and/or DVDs? You're not keeping up with what is happening in opensuse-factory I take it :-) In addition to the usual DVD and 6 CD set (for 10.3), there is also now a KDE specific install CD, and a Gnome specific install CD. Kinda sounds like Kubuntu and Ubuntu to me. It makes sense. Why download Gnome if you don't like it (ie the entire 6CD or DVD set) and all you need is the 1 CD KDE (or Gnome) version (or vice versa) and a connection to the Repositories?
Ubuntu is a Debian, which makes it quite a bit different from SUSE.
It's not that different. OK, based on deb not rpm, but... so? What difference does that make in the proverbial grand scheme of things? (other than that some files are not in the places you may be used to.. eg apache is not in /srv/www, it's in /var for some reason). OK, you can't (easily) install a SUSE built RPM on Ubuntu... but.. they have a huge repository of software (larger than openSUSE's in terms of volume/numbers) built for Ubuntu. Once it's installed, on a day to day use basis it's still Linux... it does all the same things as openSUSE. It even does some things far better - repository package management being the number one thing that Ubuntu really does well... and where openSUSE lags far behind. (my opinion of course, but also why several friends of mine I converted over to SUSE over the years have dropped SUSE in favor of Ubuntu for desktop use) One thing really worth noting about Ubuntu (and it's variations) is, that it really suffers for a lack of a decent system config tool like YAST. We like to complain about YAST until we're blue in the face, but once it's gone, you suddenly discover how much you used YAST, or at least appreciated YAST. I've triple booted and more on my computer. It works fine - the Ubuntu installer will find the other OSes installed and create GRUB entries for them. Just be aware that the last Linux installed will (usually) be the one who supplies the boot manager (GRUB usually). If you prefer the openSUSE GRUB, boot to openSUSE, edit GRUB to add in the details for the new install, and rewrite openSUSE's GRUB in place of the new Linux install's boot manager. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org