[wplug] purchasing distros

[R.E.Coutch]

SuSE is my favorite distro.

I'm chomping at the bit to get 8.2 because the 7.3 I'm running is 
becoming outdated.

SuSE has MANY similarities to RedHat.  SuSE is RPM based and many RedHat 
and other distro's RPM's will work on SuSE.

The main difference is SuSE's use of the /opt directory to store Gnome, 
KDE, StarOffice, Mozilla, Netscape, etc when RedHat will
place these in /usr/bin or /usr/X11.

SuSE uses rc.config for system startup scripts where RedHat relies more 
on the System V method of /etc/rc.d/__runlevel__  scripts.

It's a lot easier to jump from another RPM based distro to SuSE than to 
say something like FreeBSD.

I really got hooked on SuSE because of all the desktop software it came 
with even in the Personal Edition.

With 8.2, the configuration tool YAST2 now has a feature similar to 
RedHat's RHN updater.
It will check for updates and notify you when they are available.

No demo accounts for online updating, it's all free for all SuSE users.
None of those annoying come back later because the demo accounts have 
been disabled due to high bandwidth usage messages.

SuSE is the only distro I know of that doesn't offer it's CD's online 
for free.
You can download a Live demo CD and the RPM's are all there on the ftp 
site but no ISO's.


Let me know how you like it and "Have Fun",

Bob



David Gerard Matthews wrote:

> I used to use SuSE.  The last SuSE release I tried was 7.3.  It was 
> the first Linux distro I ever used, and it was pretty good.  The only 
> reason I switched was because I wanted to use the Planet CCRMA 
> packages from Stanford (www-ccrma.stanford.edu) which are packaged for 
> RH.  But in my experience SuSE is still the most loaded distro you can 
> buy in box form.
>
> On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 06:56  PM, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
>
>> Well....I went out and bought a copy of Suse 8.2 at 
>> Compusa........I've never used Suse.....I'm curious to see what I 
>> think.....
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Gerard Matthews [mailto:dgm4+ at pitt.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 6:33 PM
>> To: wplug at wplug.org
>> Subject: Re: [wplug] purchasing distros
>>
>>
>> Boxed distros generally include stickers.  My desktop box currently
>> sports a RedHat sticker on a spot where a SuSE sticker used to be.
>> -dgm
>>
>> On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 02:40  PM, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> Who sells Linux bumper stickers or just stickers?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Strange [mailto:john at strangeness.org]
>>> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 2:37 PM
>>> To: wplug at wplug.org
>>> Subject: Re: [wplug] purchasing distros
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in knowing where you got that as well.
>>>
>>> - john
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:18, squeegy-wplug at squeegy.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> One way I put my money where my mouth is is with a linux open source
>>>> credit card 1% of everything I spend is donated to the open source
>>>> movement and I get a cool penguin on my credit card.  it has got a
>>>> few store keeps to ask questions.  helps spend the word.
>>>>
>>>>> So.....I was wondering how many people have actually purchased a
>>>>> boxed copy of a distro......I'm thinking about putting my money
>>>>> where my mouth is......and just wondered how many others >>> 
>>>>> have........
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