Battle of the Titans: Mandriva 2008 vs openSUSE 10.3 | Linux Today

Battle of the Titans: Mandriva 2008 vs openSUSE 10.3

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 19, 2007

“I’ve followed development of openSUSE and Mandriva fairly
closely over the years, albeit a bit closer of openSUSE. I write
about how nice they both are. I pick out the new features and test
basic functionality. I see what’s included and what makes up the
base system. I like them both. But a visitor and contributor here
at tuxmachines asked which would be better for his laptop and that
gave me the idea to compare these large multi-CD Titans of Linux
development.

“In the blue corner weighing in at 4.3 GB, Mandriva 2008.0. In
the green corner weighing in at 4.2 GB, openSUSE 10.3…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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