which distro for gettng a job ?
i am learning C++ and want to get a job as "C++ & OOAD expert on Linux" platform. which distro i should use ?
i am not a newbie. i am using Linux from last 1 year, hence quite comfortable with C-M-F3. i don't use Desktops, i am happy with a Window Manager. :o i am also looking for these features in my distro:
1.) text based configuration system (i literally hate "sysconfig")
2.) a good package manager that can handle dependencies
3.) stable and reliable
Yes, you said it clearer and in fewer words!
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Originally Posted by E1PHOTON
Although most people would prefer a Debian or Gentoo solution, most corporations that run GNU/Linux use Redhat Enterprise or SuSE.
That was what I was getting at, yes. In financial institutions, for example, I don't know that anyone even LOOKS at anything other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Our company recently certified RHEL 4, for example.
Companies tend to run stuff WAY behind the latest and greatest. They need a really long term, stable and secure support model. Ubuntu recently adding the notion of LTS - Long Term Support - was BIG for Debian derived systems.
Interesting to see a few variations out there
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Originally Posted by psych-major
CentOS is literally RHEL minus the logos and support. I deal with medium to (very) large financial institutions and almost all of them that run Linux at all run RHEL or CentOS. SuSE pops up from time to time, but if you know CentOS, you can find your way around SuSE with a little effort...
A couple of notable exceptions: for now, the hardware platform my company sells to these institutions runs on SuSE 9.3, and the FAA runs a bunch of Ubuntu servers...not sure what they do with them, however...
Obviously each of the surviving commercial Linux companies must have SOME business, but it is good to see that some of us can actually see more than one vendor out there selling stuff.
I did not know that some financial institutions ran CentOS rather than RHEL. Are they smaller institutions, or are they among the bigger ones? I know that Reuters financial software for market data used to run on Sun Solaris but now can also run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so it does not surprise me that someone COULD run that kind of stuff on other platforms, but I personally had not heard of any real cases where that was taking place. Where I happen to work, the company is more interested in getting solid support that they can call on, most certainly twenty four hours a day, but any time and conceivably anywhere as well. That leaves out most of the smaller companies, effectively leaving only Red Hat, Novell, and conceivably hardware companies to pick up hardware (and software) support.