[aghufran]

Which of the two, Fedora and SuSe, is more stable?

What is the origin/background of SuSe?

Is the GUI in Fedora, sufficicent enough (in terms of funtionality) to manage a Fedora system (like connect to the internet and configure basic system services)?

I only intend to use the system for Socket related development and do not want to spend much time/effort on system configuration.

Thank you.

[Roxoff]

Uh oh, flame war about to be unleashed. Quick, lock this thread!

But, fwiw, here's my take:
They're both the same in terms of stability and reliability. The user interfaces are almost identical, they both use KDE and Gnome, giving the user a choice. The GUI in Fedora is more than enough to manage the system - it's not all in one place like with Suse, but the tools are very good (they're also used on RedHat Enterprise Linux).

Personally, I'd pick Fedora over Suse because I hate YAST with a passion. Others would pick Suse over Fedora for exactly the opposite reason.

If you only want to do socket based development, then it's probably no big deal to pick any of the major distros - they'll all handle this with ease.

[bigtomrodney]

This type of thread is not very beneficial as everyone will have their own opinion. All that needs to be said is Suse and Fedora are both the community driven sides of two of the largest corporate providers of linux - Red Hat and Novell. Please refer to their websites for history and features.

Locked.