Newbie query: Ubuntu vs openSUSE

[Rameshwar Kr. Sharma]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh, that's kinda like discussing religion and politics. It's usually
> avoided. OpenSuse is rpm package based, and Ubuntu is deb package based.
> Both offer pretty much the same software.

> Doug gave you great advice. If you're not handy with cd burning or have
> limited bandwidth, go to some place like on-disk.com and pay about $5 US for
> each distro's live CD and try them out to see what YOU like. For old and
> crusty machines Lubuntu is a good choice. I use Xubuntu as I like the XFCE
> desktop. Or maybe you'll like Unity with the standard Ubuntu install. It's
> hard for someone else to tell you what you'll like or why you should install
> which version of which distribution. But, by golly, you do have choices!
> Enjoy! Ric

Thanks Ric, I really look into this matter.