[Ilugc] Redhat Vs Suse
- From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx (steve)
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:22:28 +0530
Hi Narendra,
On 02/02/2011 06:27 PM, narendra babu wrote:
Hello folks ,
Could you please let me know what are the major differences on the
application tools and admin side, pkg management , ease of installation ,
patch management support and maintenance for RHEL and SUSE .
i have done some search on the same, but could get only marketing info from
Redhat and suse saying one is better than another .
In my completely biased opinion, I would say go with RHEL simply because the
maximum number of contributions to the most commonly used applications that you
might run on an Enterprise system come from Red Hat[1]. So:
a. Bug/Security fixes in an application tend to be relatively quicker when the
upstream maintainer works for the company (ie: in most probability the
maintainer is going to consider the bug originating from a Red Hat support
ticket on a higher priority than a bug originating from the community because
that is what he/she is paid to work on).
b. When you are speaking with a Red Hat support engineers they have direct
access to the maintainer of the package. It is not uncommon for support guys to
copy/paste verbatim messages from the upstream developers into their tickets.
So, resolving issues (I am not speaking of bugs here, rather, in terms of
configuration or the 'what/why-is-this-happening' type of issues) is easier.
c. Red Hat's support life cycle is better defined and more consistent than
Suse's[2] (ie: is not dependent on how 'big' is the volume of your purchase).
...and lastly also because, Red Hat has been consistent in its dealings with
both the community and its customers for a long time -- unlike Novell[3]
cheers,
- steve
[1] Compare:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions
to
http://www.novell.com/company/affiliations/
[2] Compare:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
to
http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/
[3] Compare:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061103073628401
to
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2009021611190551
http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/ ;(specifically Q5)
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