Differences between standard Linux distro and enterprise Linux distro

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You get a standard Red Hat distribution, and a Red Hat Enterprise.

Also, OpenSuSE 10.3, and SuSE Enterprise.

What's the difference between these? Is it just the level of support? (volunteers vs paid support)?

And, last but not least, was anybody successful in getting Informix IDS to run on any Linux platform? (the version we have runs on SCO Openserver).

Thanks

/me
 
well from my experience, i FEEL a lot more secure knowing SLES 10 is 'certified' to run Oracle than running OpenSuSE with Oracle even though OpenSuSE is known to play nicely with Oracle.
 
Hey T_L

As far as I know, the differences between the Enterprise and free editions is something like this:

  • Enterprise has the paid support, free doesn't
  • If a company does both, the Enterprise gets the attention first
  • The free editions have far more bleeding edge software packages, whereas the Enterprise ones have older, more proven stable packages
  • The Enterprise has applications certified to work on it, and also has a much monger life, a few years compared to most distro's months

That's just what I know from reading up on these things.

As for Informix, no clue sorry. I'm too new for that lol
 
Also you will find that enterprise is more geared towards running as a server, ie, it will come with more pre-configured servers etc, kernel will be tweaked for performance, etc.
 
Asha'man X said:
Hey T_L

As far as I know, the differences between the Enterprise and free editions is something like this:

  • Enterprise has the paid support, free doesn't
  • If a company does both, the Enterprise gets the attention first
  • The free editions have far more bleeding edge software packages, whereas the Enterprise ones have older, more proven stable packages
  • The Enterprise has applications certified to work on it, and also has a much monger life, a few years compared to most distro's months

That's just what I know from reading up on these things.

As for Informix, no clue sorry. I'm too new for that lol
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Thanks! :)

Confirms it. :)

So technically you can use a normal distro as server although you won't get the same performance as the enterprise version... :)


*goes off to waste some more time* :D
 
it's best you don't use distros that churn over a lot as you might find the version you run no longer officially supported with updates and the like. So it would be more a Debian Stable as opposed to an Ubuntu or Fedora.
 
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