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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It was a really bad article when it comes to comparing both systems (just pointing out the flaws in Red Hat from a few examples just doesn't cut it). I also don't agree with the summary obviously.
Saying "result: SuSE will make you work more efficiently" simply spells arrogance, especially as thousands of users came to exactly the opposite conclusion. If it wouldn't be for Red Hat, I would see no reason to use anything but my old Windows 98 atm.
). I agree with pretty much all of them and hope that we will see improvements in the next months.
Especially cheap was the conclusion that less speed/responsiveness equals less usability. I won't buy that, sorry. Completely ignoring all the tremendous work that the GNOME project did in terms of usability simply makes this statements seem unreasonable.
That said, I think the article is pretty good at summing up the several flaws that still exist in Red Hat. Some are rather minor and beeing worked on (Saving clipboard after closing application) and others are rather major (bad performance, Nautilus launchers, ...). The author even missed out a few _very_ obvious ones (fileselector anyone?
Those would be my favorites for developments in the next one or two years:
* Better performance
* More polish and stability
* More standardisation and interoperability (a common freedesktop HIG would just rock)
In no particular order.