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I use Suse7.3 Webserver also dualboot win2000
that's the best combination and it goes: "have a lot of fun..."
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"Knowledge is the Real Power"
I have used Red Hat for some years, but after I have begun to use Linux professionally I prefer SuSE.
One of the main differences is that RetHat are using the Gnome desktop environment where SuSE are using KDE.
It seems to me that yhe KDE is more stable, more rock solid, than Gnome. It might have to do with German efficiency.
However the Gnome desktop is more fun. You can make the Gnome desktop look absolutely gothic - KDE looks more like Windows. You can run KDE on RedHat and Gnome on SuSE, but you might run into problems with missing files, different directory structure etc. if you try. I have certasnly done.
About the question of ease of use, everybody focuses on how easy it is to install. I think they are both very easy, and probably all the other distros are easy too. But what if you change something like your netcard? SuSE has a configuration program YaST2
(Yet an Other Setup Tool) that makes everything from changing your hardware configuration to installing new software very easy.
good luck with it anyway.
I use Red Hat 7.2, and have also used 6.2, and those are the only ones I've ever used that wasn't a shell account, and I think RH is GREAT!
But also, from what I hear, Mandrake is great for newbies, too.
I suggeest using whatever your irl friends use so that you can trade notes from what you've learned--of course you can do this with other distros, but this works much better if you use the same distros.........
I despise KDE :P I feel the same way you feel about KDE as I do with Gnome......Quote:
Originally posted here by Mox
I have used Red Hat for some years, but after I have begun to use Linux professionally I prefer SuSE.
One of the main differences is that RetHat are using the Gnome desktop environment where SuSE are using KDE.
It seems to me that yhe KDE is more stable, more rock solid, than Gnome. It might have to do with German efficiency.
I guess I'm the wierd one....
I'm using Storm Linux, Rain Edition. (Came with Maximum Linux....miss that mag)
I find that Storm is really user friendly for new users.
But that could just be me.....
Slackware is the the overall "best" in my opinon. (if you can actually have a best)
Its at least somewhat secure and the install is pretty easy.
It could be difficult for a newbie but we all have to learn some where.
I can remeber a few years back a buddy gave me a copy of OpenBSD and told me to mess with it......well i messed with it and messed up my box.:) but then i got slack and compared to OpenBSD
the install rocked. Now all i use is OpenBSD but............
Personally I like Mandrake for ease of install and overall driver support... pretty much using it on my laptop exclusively with VMWare for those few times I need to run Winblowz... works pretty well and it makes the Windows install look complicated. I used to be a big FreeBSD nut (for great driver support) and OpenBSD proponent (hey, it's a solid OS), but I've been getting a bit lazy with my workstations (yes, PC-based servers are all still OpenBSD).
As far RedSplat goes, I've gotten too tired of having to fight with it to use it anymore... yeah, it's probably "ok" for n00bs if you have namebrand-type hardware, but don't try installing it on your PC that you've thrown all sorts of weird leftover hardware in to, in my opinion. So far, for driver support, I've been pretty impressed with Mandrake (just started using it in the 7.2 days and am happily using 8.2 on my laptop) -- still don't make updates to the GNOME RPMs as much as I would like, though (yes, I've been getting too lazy to just go pull something out of CVS and compile it lately... bleh).