On Wednesday 13 June 2007 09:29:01 Renich Bon Ciric wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 08:12 +0200, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > My University wants to force us all to use OpenSuse. Up to now I'm a > > happy Fedora user. So can you help to find more arguments why I should > > keep using Fedora? > > - First of all, Fedora tends to be "bleeding edge" in case this is a > good thing for you. > - It incorporates SELinux, which is, IMHO, a great security tool > - It uses FOSS only for the base installation > - Has a lot of mirrors OpenSuse does too. > - Gives you the ability to make your own repo with supported tools > (which the university will love once it starts saving them bandwith OpenSuse does to, in fact the have the BuildService, a tool to create your own RPMs with your own repo, which is in fact a great tool if you're going to develop tools with special configurations for your enviroment. I have an account there for 1 year or so, and I can tell you guys that that tool is awesome http://build.opensuse.org > - Virtualization is the Fedora's second name > - That would make 'Network Install' the third? > - Great Clustering tools (Filesystem, heartbeat, etc) with documentation > (RHEL docs) OpenSuse documentation team is doing a really good job, but it's true, Fedora has got better one :-) > - F7 incorporates the great 'Revisor' tool, which let's you customize > your distro... almost Stupid Proof! OpenSuse Build Service again :-) > - It provides excelent documentation (RHEL Documentation and other > projects work wonders with it) > - It has some nice support sites: fedoraunity.org, fedoraforum.org, etc > - NVidia and ATI driver support (try to coff or something while saying > ATI) > - It can run on 192 mb or ram Really? :-) > - Small distro (on minimum install) > - It updates the kernel fairly often (better performance and stuff) That's true, totally agree. > - It automounts everything you put into it!... almost OpenSuse does > > Bush : All votes are equal but some votes are more equal than others. > > Did he really say this??? LMAO!! It's normal, he's Bush :-) Again, guys I do use Fedora, and I do love Fedora, what I want to mean is that Fedora and OpenSuse are similar and there're not so many big reasons to use one or other. Cheers! Manuel -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
