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Re: debian vs suse



On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote:
> What is the different between debian and suse?
> How are the security and stable?

Security is more dependant on the administrator of the system.  I've
heard it said that security is 99% system administration and 1%
software.  If you don't know what you're doing then you're going to get
cracked.  But if you know what you're doing, then you can secure any
system (even Redhat).

Stability wise, you're running essentially the same software in either
place.  They're both Linux, and probably both have the same default set
of processes running.

From an end user point of view there should be no difference at all.
From a system administrator point of view you'll notice plenty of
differences.  Debian has strict policies regarding file system layout,
which should make things very easy for you because it leads to
consistancy.  I don't know if SuSE has similar policy guidelines.  And,
of course, the software management tools are completely different.  I
have no experience with the SuSE tools so I can't comment on them, but
apt-get and friends are widely considered to be the best package
management tools available.

noah

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