[plug] SuSE

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Quoting Stuart Midgley <stuart.midgley at ivec.org>:

> I tend to disagree with the comment "It's all Linux".  Yes, they all  
> use the same kernel but that's about it.  They diverge widely.  SuSE  
> is about as close to Gentoo as it is to IRIX.
> 
> We use SuSE on our 160cpu SGI Altix 3700Bx2 and I've administered it  
> on the 1680 cpu system in Canberra.  It is (now) the only linux SGI  
> support on the Altix systems.  Over all it is VERY good, I recommend  
> it to anyone.
> 
> SuSE tends to have a very aggressive kernel maintenance system.  They  
> have modules in their kernel that no other linux has (Lustre, Job,  
> cpusets) and tend to work very closely with vendors (eg. SGI).  It is  
> an excellent linux with good hardware support.  Some of the kernel  
> tuning they have done is also very good and can give much higher IO  
> throughput than most other distros.
> 
> On the down side is YAST... complete piece of crap.  I end up having  
> to write all my own init script that do what I want.  SuSE have gone  
> over board with their configuration stuff.
> 
> Well, hang on, let me clarrify that.  If you are happy staying  
> entirely within yast, you are fine, it appears to work very well.  If  
> you change anything outside of yast, then you can't ever run yast  
> again...
> 
> Stu.
> 
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Like I said, not flame-bait. I've worked with about 15 different distros and its
my opinion that they all generally work the same (eg. /etc is configuration stuff..)

You may find it different -- certainly when the only Linux I knew was Redhat I
thought the others... very alien when I first started moving around distroland.