SuSE install

[gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com (Jerry Feldman {75562})]

"Tewksbury, Chuck" wrote:
> 
> I am curious... I have only tried RedHat... what things does Debian have
> that RedHat does not?
Do you mean SuSE?
I found that SuSE contains packages for some things that I use all the time,
such as sudo and xemacs. Neither of which were on my Red Hat 5.2
distribution. Star Office is included on the SuSE distribution. I found that
there are more choices on SuSE, such as different versions of tcl, several
different print spool managers. Debian is also essentially a single CD, but
if I remember correctly it does include both sudo and xemacs. Saves me a
download. SuSE 6.0 and 6.1 have a very wide choice of Window managers,
including susewm. You can use YaSt to select the default Window manager, and
whether to start up the system using command line or GUI. (As an alternative
to editing one line of /etc/inittab). SuSE includes the normal plethora of
Window managers, such as GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment, and just about every one
you can think of. If I remember, Red hat limits your choice. 


>From a package manager standpoint, Both Red Hat, SuSE, and Debian have
predetermined installation menus. Both Red Hat and SuSE have graphical disk
partitioners. I don't like Red Hat's Disk Druid. With SuSE, even if you are
going to install from scratch, it can use your existing fstab to determine
your file mounting preferences. 

One difference between SuSE and Red Hat is their system management tools. I
like SuSE's Yast for some things, but I prefer Red Hat's control panel for
others. 

One major difference between SuSE, Red Hat and Debian is where the startup
scripts are located:
Red Hat:
uses run levels for X (3 Command Line, 5, X).
Scripts are in /etc/rc.d/init.d
rcx.d directories are under rc.d.
the /etc/sysconfig contains network and other scripts. 

SuSE:
uses run levels for X (2 Command Line, 3, X).
Scripts are in /sbin/init.d
rcx.d directories are under /sbin.
SuSE uses /etc/rc.config to set environment variables for many of the
configuration parameters, such as network. 

Debian:
X is started based upon a configuration script in /etc/X11, not based on run
levels. 
scripts are in /etc/init.d
rcx.d directories are under /etc

Both SuSE and Red Hat do use Linuxconf.
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