Re: [MLUG] SuSE

[Chad Whiting <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sunday 03 August 2003 08:38 pm, Matt Ross wrote:
> My $.02 on the matter is that Slackware lacked the pretty graphics, but all
> in all was just as easy to use as Mandrake (not tried RH myself), while
> SuSE was harder in the fact that you had to know which pieces you did and
> did not want installed. I will concede that I never got slack to recognize
> my PCMCIA eithernet card, but that was a driver issue, the OS worked fine
> without any more thinking required than other distros.

Slackware lacks the graphics because Patrick tries to keep it simple, the 
extra graphics SuSE throws in uses up RAM/Swap and is simply a waste of 
electricity. I mean seriously who needs a geko and a blue screen on your 
tty1? Slackware is easy to use if you don't care how secure your system is. 
Then again so is any distro/OS. One thing about Slack is you hafta lock it 
down, make sure you disable all services you don't absolutely need running 
and write a good iptables script. Another thing that's nice is you're totally 
in control of everything and it's not automated like SuSE. SuSE is nice but 
it's so similiar to windoze it's frightening. It forces you to accept a ton 
of programs you don't need, taking up disk space and just plain being 
annoying. Not to mention you hardly know what's going on and how can you 
really know if you're running a secure box when you use the SuSE firewall 
when you have no idea what the heck it's really doing when you click on 
Paranoid (or whatever security setting you choose). Slack forces you to learn 
about TCP wrappers and about TCP/IP protocols so you can write a good 
iptables script. Without this knowledge you can't run a secure server...and 
by the way I set up my PCMCIA wireless networking card (linksys) to run just 
fine on slackware.

just to clarify my statement - I have nothing against SuSE, but in my opinion 
using SuSE is like running Windows without the BSOD. So in other words SuSE 
is excellent but I prefer slackware because you become more intimate with 
your box..
:)


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