[ale] Suse or Red Hat? (yes, yes, i know here we go again...)

[PBoyington at polyengineering.com (Preston Boyington)]

> I am very interested in understanding how to upgrade and downgrade 
> software right now.?? I need to downgrade gcc from 3.3-23 to 
> 2.96 or get 
> them to live side by side.?? If I could apt-rpm gcc2.96 and it 
> would do 
> what was needed, I would jump for joy.
>
> Dow
> 


is Suse rpm based??? (yes, that's how little i know of it)?? how easy is it to upgrade/update??? being an ignorant debian user (yes, it's possible) i "apt-get" whatever i need and haven't had _any_ problems with dependancy issues or having to locating some obscure file.?? i am trying to be careful as i don't want my friend to call me from 40 miles away at 9:00pm with a problem.?? 

will apt4rpm work with Suse??? i am guessing that mp3's and dvd's play easily??? or will i have to update the features myself?

Preston