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 article smacks somewhat of a fanboy writing in support of his favourite. There isn't much objectivity in any part of the review.
However, this doesn't mean that it's OK for everyone to jump in and start defending their own preferences. (Although what I've seen so far is much more reasonable than the flame wars that seem to start from time to time)
I've been a SUSE and RedHat user. I have installed SUSE and RedHat servers and desktops for clients who are all very happy with the results.
To them (and users are what really count), the desktop or server applications they are using are fulfulling their respective jobs perfectly. They don't care about the GNOME v KDE debate, or SUSE v RedHat. They care about getting their work done.
They all seem to be happy - although there have been a few raised eyebrows when my invoice landed
I think people need to be much more constructive in their comments about both sides. At the end of the day, I do NOT think that either desktop will crush the other out of existence. What will (or SHOULD) happen is that applications from ANYWHERE will be able to play happily with each other no matter what desktop the user prefers to use.
That may be a utopian dream, but it's a damn sight better than the distopia that many people claim the "other" world looks like.
As Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney once sang (in a rather rubbish song in my view) . . .
Ebbony and Ivory,
live together in perfect harmony
side by side on my piano keyboard
oh Lord why can't we
Dunk