Originally Posted by
jdong
As most of you guys know by now, I'm running SuSE (x86_64 edition, actually) on my primary desktop.
I've had a bit of fun with OpenSuSE via VMWare.
I'm extremely excited. An interesting tidbit most people probably overlooked: APT is included as of beta2, and there's currently talk about YUM being included, too. Even without APT, Yast has excellent dependency resolving skills, both while installing from SuSE's huge repositories and also when installing single rpms (Yes folks, yast -i file.rpm WILL resolve dependencies automatically from SuSE's repos, something that Debian distros have yet to get right). Yast System Update also handles version updates very well over the network or from CD's. SuSE Patch RPM's make security updates just a couple of KB's as opposed to hundreds of MB.
SuSE also includes KRpmBuilder and other sweet build tools, making the developer's life easier.
I'm also astounded at the development pace of OpenSuSE, with major bugs squashed in a matter of hours after being reported...
Note that OpenSuSE beta2 still has some major bugs that make it a pain to use as a mission-critical desktop OS. It's fun to play with, but don't depend on it for day-to-day work. Note that even during betas, SuSE will release a new beta to correct huge problems -- the SuSE repos aren't in live development like Breezy's -- basically, when you install beta2, how it functions now is how it will function until you System Update to a new beta (which can be either a good thing or bad thing -- you decide)
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