“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…”