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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.
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-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.
+[Suse] is a German LinuxDistribution that has the same sort of importance in Europe as RedHatLinux has in the rest of the world. The latest version of Suse includes [Kernel]
2.6, [
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.
+[Suse] (the company) is
now owned by [Novell], so expect the LinuxDistribution
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.
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+Most seasoned users find [Suse] pretty awful as far as distributions go. Its configuration tools interfere with manual tweaking a lot of the time, and while you can ignore them and remove all the automatisms, that certainly means no less work than setting yourself up on a less "puffy" distro. The default install doesn't include things like a [Compiler], make(1), locate(1) and others that really should be available on every "real" system, though you can easily add these missing tools with a few clicks once you know about them
.
-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.
+It is not a bad choice as an introductory system, but most adept users seem to move on to other distributions once they're a bit more familiar with Linux.
If you want a beginner friendly European
distro that might last you longer
, [Mandrake] is possibly
a 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.
-[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.
+[Suse] is best suited for businesses rather than end users. Where flexibility and control over any one machine matters less than easy roll-out and maintenance of mass installations, it is an excellent choice. [Suse] offer
a popular Enterprise Linux flavour of their
distribution, which is often the
only supported option next to RedHat
Enterprise Linux. In
these situations it is
a reasonable choice.
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