Red Hat9, Fedora or SuSE 9.0 ?

Hey, so I'm thinking of buying a new laptop soon and I wanted to instal Red Hat 9 on it, but with a bit of surfing I found out about Fedora and SuSE, and they all sound great ! From reviews I read SuSE sounds real good, If you buy it (about 150$ Canadian) you get tons of software and some very good documentation with it(well more like books on SuSE, and I know I can download it, I'm just saying). So what do you think I should go with? Anyone tried all three ?

Oh and if you would answer "it depends what you want to do with it" could you please specify when would I need one instead of the others.

Thanks.

I never tried suse, but I use RedHat 9 on all my servers. There are many users with RedHat installed on their personal computers, and they seem very happy to have it.

I recently installed SuSE in class and it was even faster and more pain-free than RedHat9. Both are quite ideal for personal computers, but as you mentioned, SuSE does come with a ton of nice documentation (not that you can't find the same information online...). I have not yet tried out Fedora, so I can't give you my opinion on that.
It really couldn't hurt to try out all three. I hope that you find one that suits you best!

//Whoo, smurf smilies! Lol...sorry, I haven't been around in a while.

I guess I could try all three, since its all free hehe. But so far I'm leaning towards SuSE. It looks like Feroda is not as good as the two others yet.

hello.

I would recommend you about mandrake 10 .
its easy to use !
if its a laptop than I will more recommend on mandrake because it works better with the hardware and its more likely that all you hardware will work with mandrake than with others!

its as a good packages management !

I used mandrake two month ago before I moved to slackware but I moved to slackware because I wanted a challenge and slackware for a laptop is not the best idia !

mandrake would be the best choise to my opinion with a new laptop!!

I hope I helped!


thankd for your time!

Redhat is pretty good on all types of computers....

Redhat 9 wont be supported in a few days...if not unsupported already.

Personally, I'd recommend Fedora.

hi pal
u better go for edhat product that suse.. frm my personnel xperiance i am sayin. u can get tonnes of documentation in th net for redhat product.
now i am workin on fedora core2. its pretty impressive and very user frndly(i felt so). i fell its not worth spendin $150 for suse.
u cn finr fedora core2 here
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/iso/. if u r intrested in that copy
FC2-i386-disc1.iso
FC2-i386-disc2.iso
FC2-i386-disc3.iso
FC2-i386-disc4.iso and burn it.

enjoy linux

I think it's a matter of trying different distributions and seeing which work. I use Fedora2 on my laptop and it runs great, but it wouldn't have anything to do with my girlfriend's PC so she uses Mandrake.

I have always used Red Hat i am thinking of swiching to the fedora flavor.

SUSE is a great flavor of linux , but i recommend installing Fedora Core 2
i. It is quite easy to upgrade , and everybody has heard of redhat so it will be a good choice ,plus its free!!!

Also have about 6 gb of software buit it still need improvement

I recently purchased Suse 9.1 and found it simple and very well designed. Ohter than i can't get my Dvds or ati video card to work to play its a great os.

And the conclusion is..... noone can tell you which linux to use.

lol
If you are a beginner in Linux then Fedora would be a better choice to go with and if you are slightly a more advanced user, go with suse. redhat is not a good choice as like mentioned before support for it is going to stop.

better then saying use M$ and use what you get. :p In linux you take is best suited for you or your machine, just a mater of taste.

Most ppl will pehaps already tried vatious distros a stick to use because they like some features or user friendlyness

i personlly use slackware wich i really like allot, but perhaps not the best distro to start with.

Fedora is good, theyr close to releasing Core 3 if i'm not mistaken.
I would say you try some of them and then choose one
Turbo linux is good aswell for beginners
ARk aswell
or Mepis
or Yoper
or ..

your choice !

Hello everyone!!
I m also struggling with that question. So much versions of linux, so new user like me can be easy confused. For now I goth fedora, suse, mandriva and ubuntu. Don t like mandriva, can it be shut down without end session first? I need jet to try suse and then probably will stick to the fedora. Linux can be really confusing to first users. Like I could not find where to browse computers on the network in ubuntu . I need to install linux server with domain controller and file sharing support for windows clients, proxie and etc.. Is debian good choise for that? Good luck to me I don t even know how to use linux on my desktop PC