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[Suse] is a German LinuxDistribution that has the same sort of importance in Europe as RedHatLinux has in the rest of the world.
-Most seasoned users find it pretty awful as far as distributions go. Its configuration tools interfere with manual tweaking a lot of the time, and the standard install doesn't include things like a [Compiler], make(1), locate(1) and others that really should be available on every "real" system. While you
can ignore
the configuration
tools and remove all
the automatisms
, that certainly means no less work than setting yourself up on a less "puffy" distro
.
+Most seasoned users find it pretty awful as far as distributions go. Its configuration tools interfere with manual tweaking a lot of the time, and the standard install doesn't include things like a [Compiler], make(1), locate(1) and others that really should be available on every "real" system. By clicking a few buttons in the installation process, a power user
can easily install
the proper
tools needed to compile
and build open source tools. The latest version of Suse includes
the 2.6 kernel
, KDE, Gnome, and has full support for the AMD64 architecture
.
The official capitalization of the name (SuSE, SUSE, Suse, etc) has been changed so many times that it's best to just refer to it as [Suse] out of resignation as much as out of spite.
It's now owned by [Novell], so expect it to either become the base of "Novell Enterprise Linux", or to gain a lot more relevance in the future as a product of its own merit, with NetWare services running on top of it.
If you want a European beginner friendly distro, [Mandrake] should be a much better choice. It is also one you're likely to find help with among [WLUG]gers -- [Suse] never had much of a following in NewZealand.
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+[Suse] also has a popular Enterprise Linux distribution. Several third-party software vendors only support Redhat Enterprise and Suse Linux, so in these situations Suse would be a reasonable choice.
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