Linked by Steve Barnhart on Tue 18th Nov 2003 01:36 UTC
I recently picked up a copy of SuSE 9.0 Professional. I have never used or been familiar with a SuSE product before as I've only used Mandrake, Red Hat, and a bit of Debian. After using Red Hat for a while I decided to evaluate SuSE and I am now sorry for not having tried it sooner.
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When I first started using Linux, Red Hat was my distro of choice. I used RH for about 3 years (starting with 6.2), until I tried SuSE 8.2 earlier this year. The reason why I switched was because RH could not automatically configure my wireless network card, and so I was curious to see if some other distro could do it. To my surprise SuSE 8.2 did it with no problems. I've been using SuSE since then and I wish I had switched a lot earlier.
Also, searching for and installing packages in SuSE is so much more easier than in RH. Can you even search for a specific package in RH with the install/uninstall tool? Well, you can with YaST, and it is a great feature if you are looking for a old library file or some other mysterious package.
Anyways, if you've never tried SuSE, definitely give it a shot.