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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:31 am
by NiGHTFiRE
SuSE has it's advantages and disvatages. Some commands doesn't work for me atleast. like apt doesn't work.
Suse is good for people that just has started using linux like me, but i'm soon gonna cfhange to debian or fedora. Can you guys please tell me some advantages and disvantages of them?

Thanks.

Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:43 am
by Chris Corbyn
NiGHTFiRE wrote:SuSE has it's advantages and disvatages. Some commands doesn't work for me atleast. like apt doesn't work.
Suse is good for people that just has started using linux like me, but i'm soon gonna cfhange to debian or fedora. Can you guys please tell me some advantages and disvantages of them?

Thanks.
Hmm apt is for debian based systems. SuSE is a RPM based system ;)

Advantages with debian: Package management is second to none. I highly recommend it.
Advantages with FC: HUGE user base... dead easy to get support. Disadvantage. RPM sucks IMO.

Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:48 am
by Roja
d11wtq wrote:Hmm apt is for debian based systems. SuSE is a RPM based system ;)
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Advantages with FC: HUGE user base... dead easy to get support. Disadvantage. RPM sucks IMO.
You can get apt-rpm, which brings the ease of use of apt to rpm-based systems.

RPM doesn't suck once you add apt to the mix. I won't say that apt-rpm is better than debian's apt, but its really solid.

(Fedora core has apt-rpm available, as well as yum, which is also becoming quite good).