[ale] Suse vs. Ubuntu. Is is worth the time to switch to ubuntu?

[Jeff Lightner]

If you're looking for commercial support like Suse has you might want to
consider RedHat rather than Ubuntu.   

In any case you'd probably want to do a fresh install even if there were
an "upgrade path" which I doubt.   My experience is that no matter how
well planned out an OS "upgrade" (other than minor revision levels)
there will always be things missed AND you'll end up with garbage from
the earlier OS that you're never quite sure its safe to remove.

I'd probably not do a mass upgrade for the sake of moving though.   If I
had a desire to move on to later kernel versions I'd switch OSes at that
point.  There will be a little bit of a learning curve as regards
package management since Suse does it differently than Ubuntu or Redhat
and those 2 do it differently than each other.    Many folks will tell
you apt and related tools for Ubuntu (Debian based) is superior to
Redhat's package management but I for one prefer rpm/yum over the apt
tools.   Starting with RHEL5 yum is used rather than up2date and it was
used for Fedora/CentOS which are free RedHat variants you can use if you
don't need commercial support.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Chuck Huber
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:53 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Suse vs. Ubuntu. Is is worth the time to switch to
ubuntu?

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I've been using Suse since about 9.1.  Since then, Novell has taken over
and they've struck a deal with MicroShaft.  I've seen quite a few
references on this list of folks using ubuntu.  The main reasons I've
stuck with Suse is
    o ease of installation.  (boot from mini CD, network install)
    o fairly user friendly (non-bit-head computer users in the immediate
vicinity)
    o Updates are fairly easy - I mirror a suse site locally so I can
install and update without having to traverse the relatively slow DSL.

How does this stack up against ubuntu?
Does anyone have any personal reasons why they choose Ubuntu over Suse?
or Suse over Ubuntu?

I guess what I'm fishing for are a few good solid reasons for converting
 a half-dozen or so workstations and servers from Suse to ubuntu.  If
so, should I plan on a fresh install or an upgrade?

Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
    - Chuck

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