[olug] Differences between SuSE and RH

[Mr Scsi]

*1) If I pull down a recent Fedora and fire it up, will that get me fairly
close to the way Enterprise does things?

* In short Yes. FC5,6,7 = RHEL4
FC8,(and soon 9) = RHEL5(.5)
*
**2) What major differences (besides the package manager) can I expect
between
RH Enterprise and SuSE Enterprise?
*
In RHEL4.x they used up2date.
In RHEL5.x they switched to YUM. Depending on where your new shop is at in
the deployment cycle, you could see both.
NO YAST(2) thank <insert diety of choice here> !! Config locations seem to
be normal (init 5 style) chkconfig, /sbin/service etc... and modifying the
NFS service doesn't rewrite the config for apache..
OK that last one was a personal jab on my part.
*
*In short, you should be fine with minor learning curves along the way.

If I sound bias... I might be.
I'm RHCE since rh7.3
working on RHCA.

Andy*

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On 5/9/08, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> This is not a troll, really! :)    I've recently accepted a new position
> and
> will be moving from a SLES shop to a Red Hat Enterprise shop.  I haven't
> used
> Red Hat since about RH7, so I've got some catching up to do.  Here's a few
> questions.
>
> 1) If I pull down a recent Fedora and fire it up, will that get me fairly
> close to the way Enterprise does things?
>
> 2) What major differences (besides the package manager) can I expect
> between
> RH Enterprise and SuSE Enterprise?
>
> 3) Any other gotchas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> DT
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