Submitted by srlinuxx on Monday 20th of September 2010 03:05:23 PM

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I'll come right out and admit it: I don't like Suse Linux as a server OS. I'm sure that I've offended a large number of you right off the bat, but hey, no sense in beating around the bush.

Some of my dislike is based around the fact that it's not nearly as common as Red Hat, CentOS, or Ubuntu in the United States, and thus feels very foreign to someone used to those particular flavors. The rest of my aversion to Suse has to do with core beliefs. Suse has always seemed to want to make things easy for novice Linux users and, by doing so, makes things much harder for those of us who know what we're doing. To me, that's anathema.

The basis of this is YaST2, the all-encompassing system tool that ships with Suse. It allows admins to perform a wide variety of system configuration tasks, from adding network interface configurations to downloading and installing new software to configuring any number of services on the box. It comes in a GUI and in a text-based console -- and drives me absolutely nuts because it always seems to get in the way.

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