[lug] SuSE vs. RedHat distro differences

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

I perceive a key difference between SuSE and RedHat.  I was used to download
everything I ever needed over the Internet.  SuSE seems a lot more CD focused.
There is only one CD (their evaluation CD) available for download.  Useful
utilities like openssh and more are on the "second CD", which you need to buy at
the store.

Is this perception correct or am I missing something here?  At least rpmfind.net
doesn't seem to list many SuSE rpms at all.  So it seems to me that you need to
either rebuild those RPMS if you can or buy the CDs.

Ferdinand

Alan Robertson wrote:

> "Ferdinand P. Schmid" wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your reply - I found my problem:  I had gone to their US site and
> > none of my searches went anywhere.  Close to useless as far as I am
> > concerned.  Based on your reply I just tried their German site with the same
> > searches and it produced useful results, in English!
> >
> > Now I can start getting moving!
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Ferdinand
>
> I think the situation with US/non-US crypto things will change starting with
> SuSE 7.1, which is now being burned into CDs at a mad pace.
>
>         -- Alan Robertson
>            alanr at suse.com
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