Star Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
SuSE, openSUSE If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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RE: Sounds about right ...
by linux_baby on Mon 7th Oct 2002 16:05 UTC

>> Sometimes I wonder if the people producing distros ever >> really look at what their competition is doing. ALL of >> them could learn a whole lot that way!

No kidding! Everyone develops their on install script, package manager, print tool, display manager, etc, etc. Its ridiculous! If everybody agreed on certain standards and shared some of the more basic tools, they could save themselves time and effort and spend more time and resources improving other things. I don't why each company should hire somebody to do a display tool.

>> However, if SuSE fix some of the issues they have, .. I >> believe that Red Hat's 'empire' in the Linux world will >> be in jeopardy.

Yes yes, especially if Redhat does nothing to improve their product while SUSE is fixing all the things on your list!! ;)

Nah, I don't see it happening. I haven't tried SUSE in a while, but having used Redhat 8 on four different machines, I am convinced Redhat is on a very solid path. They still have a long ways to go, but if they continue with what they are doing, and if gnome continues to improve, Redhat will likely increase market share if anything.

But hey, who knows? I'd like to see SUSE, Lindows, or whoever, turn up the heat on Redhat! Competition can only be good!!