Originally posted here by gore
SuSE has no minimal? Hmm, silly me, the 300 times I've installed it I must have been imagining that I saw "Minimal install" on the screen, and in the books. Something that allows a 400 MB or so install.
400Mb?!? Call that a "minimal install"?

And not to mention SuSE has licensed software in it, which is why when you do FTP installs, some things are missing.
As I said before, apart from the licensed software (which I don't want anyway) there is nothing in SUSE that you can't get off the Internet. Yes, it comes in a pretty box with 2000 applications, but you're never going to use 90% of them (if that).

Some of you really do not care about Linux in general, if you did, you'd see that for Linux to excel, it can NOT be that damned hard to use, or no one will want to except us.
SUSE is an excellent choice for people new to Linux, Red Hat for those people who know a bit about Windows, partitioning etc. and want to have a slightly more technical introduction - whereas Slackware and Gentoo are for those of us who want more precise control over our system.