Over the last year, I’ve switched back and forth between Fedora Core 1/2 and Suse 9.1 Professional. I also saw HP ship the NX5000 notebook (a Centrino-based system) with Suse 9.1 Pro with all power management and wireless working and realized that they had made some significant improvements.

I now see them more as an international company with better US (english) support. However, with the Novell acquisition my thoughts of Suse have changed.

Searches on google for third party RPMs or support often left with me German-only web pages. They were always a little too German for me. Honestly, I’d never really given Suse much thought until this last year. Since my network is comprised of about 70% RedHat servers, it makes sense that I’d use RedHat/Fedora on my own workstation. I support RedHat for my paycheck (AS & ES). I faithfully bought or downloaded each RedHat release from 5.0 to 9.0 and have used both FC1 and FC2. I started into Linux with Slackware, moved to FreeBSD for a while, then tried Solaris on x86, and eventually went back to RedHat around release 6.0. In all honesty, I’ve been a loyal RedHat user for many years. As such, with different offerings from both parties, I wanted to make sure I was comparing apples to apples and comparing Fedora Core 3 to Suse 9.2 Pro seems to be the best match up. Novell/Suse have recently announced their corporate desktop which appears to be in direct competition with RedHat WS and Sun’s JDS. However, both Novell/Suse and RedHat seem to now be offering a corporate desktop solution and a “desktop for the masses” solution.įedora Core 3 is what would have been RedHat 10 or 10.1 had RedHat not abandoned the boxed, retail-shelf market and therefore is its closest offering to Suse 9.2 Pro. I was originally going to compare Suse 9.2 to something like RedHat WS 3.0.

While Suse 9.2 Pro was announced close to a month ago, it was only made available for purchase recently.

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