thetonestarr said:
I have no experience whatsoever with Fedora. What benefits does it have over SUSE? also: I also have experience with RedHat, but that's only in server-operation and does not count. |
Fedora boasts better repository management than SuSE by a very wide margin. Yumex (Yum Extender) is also much faster than YaST's package manager and easier to search through. It doesn't come with media repositories like SuSE does but I find Livna provides most everything I need in that area.
There's also the old SELinux (Fedora) vs AppArmor (SuSE/'buntu) debate. SELinux is more robust and powerful. App Armor has a better learning curve and is more efficient.
Performance-wise, Fedora seems to be better. It's just faster all-around than SuSE. As you go down in specs, SuSE tends to hang more while Fedora is more likely to freeze just a single application if it bottlenecks. I'm usually running Fedora with Gnome (versus SuSE with KDE/YaST) so that may be a factor at some level. On a low-spec machine, I can run Fedora with Beryl/compiz effects at roughly the same speed as SuSE and no special effects.
Still, those are quibbles. After you use a distro long enough, you'll get used to its package management and most users don't care about SELinux or AppArmor (or know what they are probably). Both are great distros and I'm actually using SuSE right now. SuSE is nice, but I'm more familiar with the in's and out's of Fedora. If something breaks on a distro, it's easier for me to find the problem and correct it with a terminal on Fedora machine than SuSE because I know it better. Once Fedora 11 comes out, I'll probably blow away SuSE and give it a whirl.
