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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Thank you people for your comments to my article.
Seems that KDE / Gnome issue was the one according which the article has been judged, so some counter-comments follow.
KDE and Gnome are basicly very similar (and uninnovative) windowing systems. It is difficult for me to understand why somebody would bother to be a "fan" of either one.
Currently Red Hat 9 with Gnome 2.4 lacks many every-day features that SuSE 8.2 with KDE 3.1 has, but as time goes by, it will have them like KDE will implement the features that Gnome now has but KDE hasn't. The issue of KDE vs Gnome will pass by year 2005. In the meantime, however, you get your ordinary office work done more effectively using SuSE 8.2 KDE 3.1 than Red Hat 9 with Gnome 2.4. Gnome 2.4 is not a bad solution, and if somebody feels a need to say that I "hate" Gnome, I must say that I have no need to hate software products.
SuSE 8.2 with KDE 3.1 is very fast. All key KDE components open in around 1 second or less. Does it need to be faster? Red Hat 9 with Gnome 2.4 is not "slow" but when it takes 3 seconds to launch something that takes less than a second in the competing product, the feeling of slowness is natural. This is the feeling with all PCs we have so far tested, ranging from IBM laptops to self-assembled desktops. And no nVidia cards here. But again, I think this issue will pass as well.