On Thursday, June 09, 2011 09:30:55 PM [email protected] wrote: > Hi, haven't used a linux box in many a years and am tossing up to run > either OpenSUSE 11.4 or CentOS 5.6 due to specific software requirements. > If you had to choice an OS which one would it be? > > Since I'm gonna be a hack for sometime could someone point me in the > direction of a good software(linux)/hardware shop in Sydney, preferably on > the Northside.
Like all things in life it all depends ... yast is the nicest and most consistant sys admin tool I've yet tried. SuSE make restricted media eg play mp3 easy (pacman) RedHat are anal about manythings (eg try to install with root password root, hard (harder than suse) to get mp3) but it is quite usable and the command line software tools are nice (yum) EL6 has invented a mechanism that I've not conquered that makes root login take 10 sec between passwd and prompt. Each is about the same hard to setup a dev environment with eoteric things. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
