Is this OS any good?
>>54437774
Yes.
>>54437774
For servers? Sure.
For the desktop? No, try Fedora instead.
>>54437807
So let's say a company uses it, if I wanted to learn this OS specifically for the company then I'd need server knowledge if this OS is more beneficial for server use?
>>54437879
Yes. It's Red Hat Enterprise Linux with all the RH trademarks removed. It is pretty much THE version of Linux run on servers everywhere but Europe, which seems partial to SUSE instead for whatever reason.
Nope, even for server the update are too late.
It a small team with large software package.
On one incident, there's a case you'll have to wait for almost a few months after RedHat release their security update.
You'll be wise to learn to use CentOS / RHEL as a resume booster, since those are usually on the keyword matching criteria that HR uses. It's not really a mind-blowing server OS, but there's nothing wrong with it either.
>>54437774
Good stuff in terms of a server OS, but as >>54437807
mentions not so much for desktop.
If you want into server do this or oracle linux.
>>54437901
>>54437961
Alright, this is mostly what I was curious about, thanks!
How would you recommend starting to learn things like that? I've dabbled with Linux vaguely before but it was mostly for personal use. Should I bother dual booting this or just run it off a VM?
>>54438043
Get some old core 2 duo or later towers, use them as centos servers.
>>54438043
Install Linux as you main OS, but don't chose something that works out of the box ( mint, ubuntu ) but instead something that will force you to make the tweaks in order to watch porn. This way you will make your feet wet. The come back and ask /g/ how to move forward.
>>54438228
So would something like Fedora help considering it's based off the same thing? Or should I go full complicated and use Arch instead?
>>54438021
Whoa whoa, wait a minute here... you are actually recommending Oracle OS? Hmm... well in that case you must be an Oracle employee/rep. Going to have to sell your product a little better than that.
>>54438043
If you want to learn server-related stuff, load CentOS in a VM and install a webserver. Get to the point where you can load an HTML/PHP page. Then try making a shit website in wordpress or drupal or something.
note: wordpress sucks nuts but it is THE most common website/blog system
>>54437807
/thread
>>54438043
And dont 'setenforce 0', learn the fucking selinux that comes active by default. Strange permission denied may come from that
>>54437901
Factually untrue.
Most linux servers run debian or ubuntu.
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all
>>54441448
neat, thanks for source
>>54437901
Never heard about anyone in my country using SUSE desu. Mostly Ubuntu, CentOS and RHEL, with a few odd Debians here and there.
>>54437901
>It is pretty much THE version of Linux run on servers everywhere but Europe
I live in an European country and I see it everywhere. The company I work for runs it on servers and Windows on workstations. I had to use several times with almost no previous Linux experience and it seemed pretty neat.
>>54437774
literally redhat
>>54437879
Yeah, if you wanna learn this and be certified look for a red hat certified systems administrator class/cert. In that test, they take you in and have you configure a redhat system (centOS is cut from redhat so it's just a bit behind)
>>54444391
I'm glad I don't need to be a cert shill to get a good job.
>>54437774
>>54437807
There are installation options out the ass. There's no reason not to use it on a desktop, unless you want to avoid having too much bloat.
>>54445826
There is. Lack of media related packages and libs, for video and audio. True for both official repos and EPEL etc.
>>54445897
Are you sure? The full package is 8 GB. There's no way they didn't include basic video and audio packages. I don't even know how someone can find 8 GB of shit to put on a "base install".
>>54441448
I bet once you throw in non-internet-facing machines, the numbers skew heavily in the RHEL/CentOS direction. Most major application server vendors primarily target RHEL, as opposed to generic Apache/nginx servers thrown up to host web pages.
I just spent the night installing different Linux distros on VMs and the only ones that seemed remotely different were Arch and Ubuntu. So, CentOS is generic Linux, with uh... server features, whatevewr that means. It probably comes with ssh. Maybe.
>>54441448
just glancing at that link, it seems to be surveying public-facing webservers, not the entire server market
I can assure you that RH is in use more than debain or ubuntu, simply because you pay for support from redhat with it, which most of the government and many private companies require
>>54441448
Spotted the jobless retard
Get hired, and you will see for yourself if you actually encoutier a freaking UBUNTU server (you won't)
>>54441448
Yeah, if I was the kind of network admin to make a server run on Ubuntu or Debian, I'd probably also be dumb enough to allow telemetrics.
>>54443544
SUSE and Novell software seems awfully popular with local municipalities and cities in Sweden for some reason
>>54445926
I am sure. I use CentOS 7 on my NAS, which also doubles as a streaming server for music and video. Naturally there are basic packages included, but more than once I've had to compile both applications and their libs when nothing was available in any repos vs. Debian or Ubuntu.
mpd, ncmpcpp, libmad, ..
Also, installing the full image isn't something you normally do. Same goes for Debian.
>>54447889
Huh, interesting. SUSE seems nonexistent in Norway.
>>54441448
this
also on linux questions debian constantly dominates the votes for what people use... and that goes into the thousands
Just install Ubuntu Server.
