![]() Hands on with openSuSE 13.1: Another outstanding releaseįor the rest of the distribution contents, Fedora and openSuSE are not all that different. On the other hand, openSuSE has the latest KDE Plasma 5 desktop, and from what I have seen so far it is working extremely well, while the Fedora KDE spin seems to be struggling with some instability both in the software and in its development ranks ( Kevin Kofler recently resigned from the Fedora KDE SIG, and had some harsh comments about how he thought the KDE development was being treated). I was reading a few different places and saw some comments from the openSuSE developers that they had decided not to go to Gnome 3.18 because it came out too late in their development cycle, and they wanted to stay with what they already knew was the stable 3.16 release. With Fedora that is Gnome, and Fedora 23 includes Gnome 3.18 while openSuSE Leap includes Gnome 3.16. As I mentioned above, although both distributions offer a variety of desktops, each has its own preferred desktop. The difference is also apparent in their desktops, although I suspect that this is a combination of difference in attitude and priority. For the comparison I'm on just above, Tumbleweed currently has Linux kernel 4.2.4, so it is essentially the same as Fedora 23. If 'leading-edge' is what you are after, then openSuSE Tumbleweed is what you should be comparing to Fedora. ![]() Remember, though, that what I am talking about here is openSuSE Leap, which is their stable distribution. This difference will increase as time goes by, because Fedora gets frequent updates so that it stays on (or close to) the leading edge, while openSuSE Leap focuses much more on stability and continuity. Fedora is more of an aggressively 'leading edge' distribution, so in various places it has newer packages than openSuSE Leap - for example, Linux kernel 4.2.5 in Fedora and 4.1.12 in openSuSE. Once the distributions are installed, you can start to see some of the differences between them. The Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter is also not supported in the openSuSE Leap base installation, but after adding the packman repositories, I was able to download and install the driver and it is working just fine. After installing Fedora 23, and adding the rpmfusion repositories (both free and non-free), it is still not recognized. This is a well known trouble spot, and I mentioned it in my original post about that system, but it had been working with Fedora 22. I have run into only one operational problem, with Fedora 23 on my Acer Aspire E11, which has a Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter. I have installed both of them on a variety of systems of both types, and I have not had any installation problems. ![]() Both of these distributions support MBR (Legacy Boot) and UEFI systems, and on UEFI they both support Secure Boot.
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