Eatherly, John D [EQ] wrote:
We are looking at Red Hat and SUSE. Does anyone have any input on which one is better for the z platform. Any advantages or disadvantages? The only difference that I can see is that SUSE seems to be a little ahead on the maintenance releases. I have done some searching but cannot find much more that would help us make this decision. Any input on this would be appreciated.
Hi John, I have worked with both RHEL 5.0 and SLES10-SP1. I must admit that my previous experience was mostly SuSE (many years PC and z). For me I found SuSE much easier to install, customize, and to maintain. But if I had worked with Redhat for years my preferences may have been totally reversed ;-) Both products are excellent, but although its all GNU/Linux underneath the supporting installation and administration scripts the distros use are totally different. If you are new to Linux, then the choice really is yours, if you have some expertize in either one I would recommend that you stick with that one. Also mixing the two (as we do) is an administration headache, better to pick one distro and stick with it. Example Firewall - both distros provide tools, both different, even though iptables is running underneath it all. And the exmaple list could go on and on ;-) Another point is what will your main application/solution be? Checking support for that may be more important than the base distro itself. Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
