[Ilugc] Redhat Vs Suse
- From: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chandrashekar Babu)
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:12:51 +0530
Hi,
On 02/02/11 6:27 PM, narendra babu wrote:
Hello folks ,
Could you please let me know what are the major differences on the
application toolsand 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 .
Novell SUSE distros use RPM just like RedHat. At the command-line, you
can use yum, rpm and tools similar to that of RedHat. But what SUSE
provides you extra is YaST - a fully integrated administration tool
for most of your admin related work (package management, hardware
configuration, network configuration and so on).
When you look at both of these distributions as an end-user, you might
find some ornamental differences (GUI setup, GUI based
configuration/admin tools and so on). At the command-line, there's
hardly any difference. So, installing packages, managing patches,
upgrading and configuration will remain more or less the same.
However, from support stand-point, I'm of the opinion that RedHat seems
to have a much larger community base, and also more widespread
deployment in the enterprise. It's very likely that someone in the
community might help you out if you're stuck up with something on RedHat
distribution, when compared to SUSE. Nine out of Ten enterprise clients
that I know of stick to RedHat Linux (or their derivatives - OEL,
CentOS, Fedora). Then again, my views could be thoroughly biased.
Cheers,
Chandrashekar.
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