RE: [SLE] Choosing Linux Distro
Just a wee Side note, I was unoffically recommended by IBM to use SuSE for my DB2 instances over Red Hat. Rich -----Original Message----- From: Jon hoffman [mailto:hoffmanjon@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:38 AM To: Filipe Joel de Almeida; Suse-Linux Subject: Re: [SLE] Choosing Linux Distro When the company that I worked for (a few years back) wanted to switch some servers over to Linux, the Director of IS insisted that we use Red Hat because of the name recognition (easier sell to the board). so I used Red Hat for a couple of years. Then we wanted to switch some of our HP-UX/Oracle servers to Linux. After consulting with the Oracle people we decided (from there recomedation) to use Suse Linux for the Oracle machines. After setting up and using the first Suse machine I never went back to Red Hat. I very rarely use Yast. Coming from a HP-UX background I am more use to editting the config files myself (also I feel more comfortable doing it myself rather then letting a Yast do it). It is also easier for me to ssh into a server and make quick changes to config files rather then getting up and going to the machine and using Yast. You will find that Yast will save you a lot of time while you are learning Linux. But like your friend said a lot of people do get a bit too dependent on it. Just have to learn how to do stuff with out it if you do not want to be dependent on it. I found that where Suse puts stuff (IE: config files, web server, .....) just makes much more since (coming from my HP-UX background). One thing that always bugged me about Red Hat was putting the web pages for your web server in the /var directory. I have also found that Suse tends to setup hardware better then Red Hat. When we got our first copy of Suse in (where I use to work) I was struggling to get the display to work properly on my laptop with red hat but Suse configured it perfectly. But from a person that has used both, I would very strongly recommend using Suse. That is just my two cents for you. Hope it helps Jon On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:05, Filipe Joel de Almeida wrote:
Hi all,
I've got a company that does Network Administration in several clients, but up until now we've only worked with M$ systems.
I'm starting to use linux (just brought a machine home to install it), and my goal is to try to find out if with Linux we'll be able to replace some of our clients systems.
One of my newbie questions is about what distro should we use. We need something that's not very complicated to start with, but that allows us to implement good server solutions.
Right now I'm trying to choose between Red Hat and Suse. One of my friends (who is a Red Hat fan) told me that he didn't like SUSE because we were a bit dependant on their configuration tools (I think he mentioned YAST).
Can you please tell me if SUSE would be the best distro for me to start with, and why?
Thanks in advance
Filipe Joel de Almeida Network Consultant Filipe.Joel@netcabo.pt
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