Choosing a Linux Distro for Business
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Doesnt the Tech an Me image use debian/ubuntu?
Yup, and that is not the direction that I am wanting to go as I am wanting to learn Red Hat/CentOS.
My Salt guide uses Fedora.
2 questions
- What distro of Linux is corporate America running on? Red Hat, Fedora, SuSe?
- What should I be learning to put myself into a Linux System Administrator position?
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Fedora and its derivatives. I would learn CentOS or Fedora.
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@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
- What distro of Linux is corporate America running on? Red Hat, Fedora, SuSe?
RHEL / CentOS run corporate America.
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@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
- What should I be learning to put myself into a Linux System Administrator position?
RHEL is where nearly all work is currently, and where most people look for experience even if using other things.
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I've recently moved my CentOS fleet to Fedora, though. It's like CentOS but years newer.
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How easily transferable are the skills between distributions?
If I go from CentOS to RHEL or Fedora shouldn't be much of a jump at all. But CentOS/RHEL/Fedora to Debian-derived is what I am asking about.
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Centos seems to be the goto ina work environment.
However debian has so much damn software available compared to all other distros, at home it is what i use. -
@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
How easily transferable are the skills between distributions?
If I go from CentOS to RHEL or Fedora shouldn't be much of a jump at all. But CentOS/RHEL/Fedora to Debian-derived is what I am asking about.
You'd be surprised. Once you learn the basics most distributions use similar metaphors. So there are a lot of transferable skills between enterprise level distributions.
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@coliver I already see some differences between distros, such as
aptvsyum/dnf -
@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
How easily transferable are the skills between distributions?
If I go from CentOS to RHEL or Fedora shouldn't be much of a jump at all. But CentOS/RHEL/Fedora to Debian-derived is what I am asking about.
Learn RedHat, even if you will use Fedora. That's what the employers will look for unless they are smart like SAM.
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@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@coliver I already see some differences between distros, such as
aptvsyum/dnfSure, but they are similar package management applications.
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But no it's not that different. Different ways of managing packages and apps, different repos... but it's all the same fruit.
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@coliver I am say bathroom while somebody in UK will call it a "loo". Does the same thing, just with different names.
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@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@coliver I am say bathroom while somebody in UK will call it a "loo". Does the same thing, just with different names.
That's a decent comparison... but I would be careful there because you could get into issues with how both of these tools work. They are two tools that do very similar things but they aren't the same tool.
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@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
How easily transferable are the skills between distributions?
If I go from CentOS to RHEL or Fedora shouldn't be much of a jump at all. But CentOS/RHEL/Fedora to Debian-derived is what I am asking about.
Moderate to high. RHEL is just an older copy of Fedora (technically a mix of a few older versions.) So that is just different points in time.
Ubuntu isn't just different packaging, but a relatively different thought process. A lot of stuff is the same (Bash is Bash, wget is wget) but a lot of tools, standards and expectations change.
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@momurda said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
Centos seems to be the goto ina work environment.
However debian has so much damn software available compared to all other distros, at home it is what i use.You feel it has more than Suse and Fedora? Maybe it does, but boy do they have a lot. That was Suse's claim to fame, over 20,000 end user apps in the early 2000s.
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@scottalanmiller said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@momurda said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
Centos seems to be the goto ina work environment.
However debian has so much damn software available compared to all other distros, at home it is what i use.You feel it has more than Suse and Fedora? Maybe it does, but boy do they have a lot. That was Suse's claim to fame, over 20,000 end user apps in the early 2000s.
Who needs 20,000 apps for their servers?
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@Tim_G said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@scottalanmiller said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@coliver I am say bathroom while somebody in UK will call it a "loo". Does the same thing, just with different names.
European toilets often actually do different things!
And the water doesn't sit 2 inches under you... they are much deeper!
Deeper in Sweden maybe. Check out Austria, SO shallow. it's creepy. A big dump in Austria and there isn't anywhere for it to go and you start rising off of the seat!
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@Tim_G said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@scottalanmiller said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@NerdyDad said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@coliver I am say bathroom while somebody in UK will call it a "loo". Does the same thing, just with different names.
European toilets often actually do different things!
And the water doesn't sit 2 inches under you... they are much deeper!
Shallow Austrian toilets...
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@scottalanmiller Alright good point, I suppose amused would be a better word.
