Distro comparison

Mark J. Dulcey mark at buttery.org
Mon Oct 20 16:12:51 EDT 2003


David Kramer wrote:

> Suse represents the option most different from RH while still being 
> RPM-based, they have the advantage of having every package under the sun on 
> the disks and no lame MP3 or video program restrictions.

Actually, the copies of SuSE that they sell here in the United States DO 
have video program restrictions. (For instance, the version of xine in 
the 8.2 distro doesn't have the dvdnav plugin.) But it's easy to 
download the necessary RPMs to add the missing features from their 
German sites.




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