Linked by Aki Kolehmainen on Tue 29th Apr 2003 03:30 UTC
This is a desktop comparison of Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 8.2 Professional Edition. We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became available. However, we have not been fully content with Red Hat, so we gave SuSE 8.2 a try when it became available this month.
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This is really odd. I've seen reports of extreme slowness on Redhat over at linuxquestions.org, but it seems to hit people at random - GNOME is extremely snappy on my redhat 8 box.
I rather suspect these people are using nVidia cards but don't install the official drivers on redhat. SuSE IIRC will automatically download RPMs for it during initial boot, whereas Redhat, which has a rather stronger political stance on free software, leaves you with the very slow nv driver. This has been the cause of the problems on LQ several times.
When I first installed Redhat this caused ridiculous levels of slowness, not just in graphical response but in everything. Not actually the fault of redhat or Gnome per se, unfortunately, like in so many other cases, companies that are more willing to turn their back on free software when it's less convenient come out looking better.
I mean, really, I think Eugenia should declare a morotorium on "reviews", which are little more than ludicrously biased fanboy rantings half the time these days. OSNews isn't so much a news site anymore, rather it's become a drainpipe down which random noise from the ether constantly spills, you're expecting to stick your hand into the sludge to try and pull out the gems.