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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I've been trying to find some merit in the article and there definately is some, but is this the kind of article we should keep on seeing ?
For those who say it's a "fan boys" view, you evidently didn't read the article correctly :-
[quote]We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became available.[/quote]
The problem with an article of this nature is how subjective it is - one persons Gnome is another persons KDE.
The authour is not ranting and is clear and concise, but the re's not really much meat in the article - it's too brief.
To truly compare two distributions, would require at least a 6 page article.
What I would like to see in future articles of this nature is :-
1. Forget about the installation and go straight into first-time boot, indicating any Generic "Show-Stopping" problems that may occur. To fix problems, does the user have to edit text files, or could the problem be easily fixed via a gui environment ?
2. Brief comparison of the eye-candy and interface usability - when there's work to be done, who cares - most of us are familiar with Gnome and KDE anyway.
3. Setting up on an office network :-
* Connecting to a windows shared printer
* Connecting to a Linux shared printer
* Browsing a windows network
* Configuring Samba
4. Basic Office work
* Writing an standard office document, such as a memo or quite in OpenOffice
* Saving that document for a windows user to open
* Printing the document
5. Operation between applications
* Cutting and pasting text between applications
* Default handling of "common" "windows" filetypes, such as PDF, MS-Word, .zip - i.e. which applications open, are associated or even work on a default install.
6. Basic hardware operation in a production environment
* Hooking up a digital camera/camera media and downloading images
* Hooking up a scanner and scanning an image for inclusion into a document
* Hooking up other USB devices, such as external drives
7. Multi-media capabilities
* Play some mp3/ogg vorbis files
* Play a DVD (if a Dvd player is present)
* movies - what codecs are supported by default
This to me would form the basis of a useful article that could help people decide whether to choose or switch to a specific distribution. Most articles of this nature spend too much time on the install, eye-candy and menu system/look 'n feel.