Suse or Fedora?

[ncg]

I've used Redhat 8 and Suse (forget which...) in the past, but am lookiing for advice on a new install with the newest version... Which one would you guys prefer these days?

Thanks!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Either one should be fine.

 

[uOpt]

I had a lot of trouble with Suse in two categories:

1) they hack up fdisk which made the installation fail on various machines I tried. Worst, the install program would refuse to install into partitions I made with a working Linux fisk. Dumb...

2) they are too intrusive with automatic editing in /etc, they mix less well with hand-editing than Fedora.

Fedora screws a few things but but it always installs and keeps my changes. Now if I could figure out what is wrong with xauth in FC3...

 

[drag]

I prefer Fedora because of the third party package support. and it's use of Apt-get to make installing and updating programs very easy.
from people like dags

That and Fedora Core3 uses only free software.

Other then that I don't have a preference, Suse is fine.

Debian is the best though.

 

[imported_zenwhen]

Ubuntu

 

[htne]

mepis

 

[slpaulson]

I haven't used Fedora, but in my experience Suse seems to do things in a strange way that can screw stuff up. Suse doesn't have a nice program, called YAST iirc, that lets you install and update your programs.

I personally enjoyed my experience with Gentoo more than Suse.

 

[Tbirdkid]

ubuntu again...

 

[Randabis]

Originally posted by: zenwhen
Ubuntu

I agree wholeheartedly. Ubuntu rocks.

 

[Markfw]

And for 64bit ? gentoo is the only option ?????

 

[Randabis]

ubuntu has an AMD64 port. It doesn't have an AMD64 liveCD though.

SUSE has an AMD64 port also.

 

[hkctr]

SuSE uses KDE as its default WM and Fedora uses Gnome. You can install either on both but I prefer using the default WM because the distro is designed to work with that. Fedora is free and SuSE you can buyor download/ftp the free version. If you buy, SuSE comes with a manual (i.e. bound paper) to provide help and guidance while Fedora comes with many users on various forums. Fedora is an endless beta test with version updates at least 3 times a year and SuSE has official, supported versions and updates less frequently but typically twice a year. You may be able to upgrade either to the next version but I have never been that successful doing it in Fedora. Both can use apt-get and have large 3rd party repositories of rpms.

Which do I recommend? Try both and decide for yourself. I use SuSE for my KDE desktop, Ubuntu for my Gnome desktop.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
And for 64bit ? gentoo is the only option ?????

I know suse and ubuntu also have amd64 installs, and I *think* there's a version of fedora too...

If you've gotten your feet wet with linux before I'd say go with a bit more of a hands on distro... gentoo, debian, slack...