SUSE or Xandros?

**chopin1810** · 09-18-2005

I'm at a crossroads between SUSE and Xandros. They both provide everything I could ever want and are both perfect for me. I don't know which one to use and I really only want one Linux distribution on my hard drive. Any ideas?

**AlexK** · 09-19-2005

try both of them and see which one you like. Then choose. I have used Xandros about a year ago and I was surprised at its quality and level of polish. But unfortunately it wasn't the distro for me at the time as I really needed more programming tools (gcc, jdk) and only had an unreliable dialup connection back then. So, I went out and brought Mandrake and SuSE cd's and have been alternating between them (Mandrake and SuSE) ever since.

If you want a really stable desktop OS, little or no programming environments, then go for Xandros. However, if you would like to tweak stuff, then go with SuSE.

oz · 09-19-2005

Suse... without a second thought!

**thephoenix6666** · 10-26-2005

Suse 10.0 has been by far the most solid Distro I have come across. It also has the newer versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and openoffice. I currently have it running on and old dell 500mhz with 128mb ram. A bit slow but still faster than Win 2000 that was on it previously. The only other good distro I have used was Mepis 3.3.1. Both of these had excellent hardware detection and there were no installation issues.

**techieMoe** · 10-26-2005

Originally Posted by AlexK

try both of them and see which one you like. Then choose.

I second that recommendation. I like them both for different reasons, but SuSE gets the nod for what I do personally.

**peaceofpi** · 10-26-2005

I havent even used Xandros and I'll tell you SuSE, FTW.

**carlosponti** · 10-26-2005

get a bigger hard drive and dual boot

**truoc444** · 10-26-2005

judging by the specs of your box i'd go with Xandros just because it runs a little quicker than Suse. i have a 1 GHz and Suse drags a little sometimes. Maybe y'all have some tweaks to make my suse run faster because it's really dragging i have 640 MB RAM even what's the deal.

**techieMoe** · 10-26-2005

Originally Posted by truoc444

judging by the specs of your box i'd go with Xandros just because it runs a little quicker than Suse. i have a 1 GHz and Suse drags a little sometimes.

Just to offer a bit of a counterpoint, SuSE is now available completely free, whereas Xandros is not (unless you count the crippled OCE version). I don't know if that's significant to you, but it is a difference.

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