[kwlug-disc] Switching Jobs from Debian Shop to RHEL?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

One thing that has been mentioned in passing, but needs to be stressed
more, is the RedHat default repositories.

In the Ubuntu/Debian world, the project itself hosts repositories for most
software projects out there. The most you have to do is enable
universe/multiverse/...etc. if they are not already enabled.

This means that you can start with a default Ubuntu LTS server plain
install, and just pull Apache, MySQL, PHP, Munin, Awstats, Memcached, a
myriad of other things, without having to search for repositories that
contain the software you want, nor configure them into your server.

In the RedHat world people often have third party repositories that they go
to bypassing the project's set of repositories.

Moreover, dependency management can be very different from Debian/Ubuntu.
If you do a yum search on a package and find it in the configured
repositories, that does not mean you can go ahead and installed it (which
is true for Debian/Ubuntu). You can have something in the dependency chain
that is not installed, and would not get installed if you say "installed
the packages I searched for".

So, you are back looking for the best repositories out there, and there is
considerable learning beyond "it is just rpm vs deb differences".


On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Joe Wennechuk <
youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am about to start a new position on the 21 st., and they are Redhat
> enthusiasts. The vast majority of my experience is with Debian. What are
> the major differences that I need to know right away? I understand that the
> networking system etc file structure is dissimilar, and to type yum instead
> of apt-get, but what really are the differences? Also should I change my
> Desktop environment from Kubuntu, or any *untu. I am downloading RHEL
> Enterprise desktop and will install later today. What are my options, and
> is the switch from *untu on my desktop necessary  when dealing with RHEL
> servers in the infrastructure?
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