Evans, Kevin R wrote:
Without wishing to stir up a firestorm here, we are working on a proof
of concept project here with RHEL on z series hardware. I have noticed
that most of the questions here seem to be about SLES...so I was
wondering why?
Is this because:
RHEL is more stable (therefore less questions)?
SLES is used by more people (therefore more questions)?
Something else?
We are not set on a distribution yet although will be a choice between
SLES and RHEL.
I recommend you do your POC on both.
Inquiring minds want to know <g>.
I suspect RH is a little more conservative; SUSE defaults to reiserfs
(which is newer than ext2/3), whereas you have to try fairly hard to get
RHEL installed on it, I'd rather ext3, I still see the occasional
complaint about reiserfs.
OTOH I think SLES has better configuration tools (in Yast, everything's
anchored at a single point) than RHEL (they're a bit harder to find,
some seem to be there just so as to tick a box on a list, some work
unsatisfactorily with a text interface (I'm thinking network
configuration), many don't have a text interface AFAIK,
You can, at present, get an evaluation copy of SLES and SLED for the
trouble of registering and downloading. RH is supposedly going into beta
for RHEL5 in Sep (was Aug), & releasing at year's end. This will be
about equivalent to SLES 10, which has just been released.
I'd be surprised if there's much difference in performance _iff_ you use
the same filesystems, the differences will be in the tools such as
installation & configuration, and in the support channel.
The one you use should be the one you prefer, you may well decide the
best configuration tool is /usr/bin/vim and that the configuration tools
don't matter.
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Cheers
John
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