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. -- http://www.chandrashekar.info/ http://www.slashprog.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
