[olug] Differences between SuSE and RH

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Fri May 9 16:36:06 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Michael Peterson <
mpeterson at charles.omhcoxmail.com> wrote:

> You want to pull down a recent CentOS and not Fedora to get as close as
> possible to RHEL.
>
> The underlying package manager is RPM.
> This is not a major difference.
> They do have different GUI and CUI front ends to it.
>
> A major difference is the AppArmor versus SELinux between the two.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Dave
> Thacker
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:56 AM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Differences between SuSE and RH
>
> 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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