Newbie query: Ubuntu vs openSUSE

[Liam Proven]

On Dec 24, 2011 5:03 PM, "Rameshwar Kr. Sharma" <mathsrealworld at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > *I* think it's better. That's my personal opinion. Others will tell
> > you differently.
>
> > I have never had any joy with Fedora and not much with CentOS (the
> > free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the commercial-only product
> > that Fedora is a rolling alpha-test version for.)
>
> > Fedora is not intended to be stable; it is a freeware product, used to
> > test out new technologies that /might/ later make it into RHEL. Unlike
> > Ubuntu it doesn't have stable releases every so often, and it is, I
> > believe, harder to upgrade from one release of Fedora to a newer one,
> > which Ubuntu makes quite easy.
>
> Ubuntu is great since I came to know that it offers releases as stable
> as for 5 years or 3 years! Cool.
>
> > OpenSUSE is also the freeware product from a company selling
> > commercial Linux - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SLES. This is the
> > server product sold by Novell. (The other commenter who claims that
> > Novell is separate from SUSE seems to me not to understand how the
> > companies work or interact. SUSE is still a division of Novell; the
> > division's HQ has been moved back to its original home in Germany,
> > that's all. SUSE's products form the basis for Novell's server
> > software.) However, SUSE has a long history, it is designed to be
> > fairly stable in its own right, and it has always supported upgrading
> > between releases. Personally I find it *much* easier than Fedora.
>
> Oh I see.
>
> > Other distros you might like to have a play with include:
>
> > * Mandriva - forked off Red Hat many years ago, uses KDE and RPM;
> > quite friendly and helpful
> > * PCLinuxOS - a lighter, smaller, simpler derivative of Mandriva
> > * Mepis - a media-friendly remix of Debian, the same source as Ubuntu
>
> > And if you fancy something completely different:
> > * PC-BSD - an easy, friendly distro of FreeBSD, a totally different
> > underlying OS to Linux
>
> I am hearing it but I would not go for it, does it also offer a live cd?
>

Without wishing to be rude, you must learn to search for easy answers for
yourself. If you ask /everything/ on mailing lists or fora, you are going
to annoy people with the volume of your posts.

Google it!
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