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Developer's Corner / Re: Lost My Faith - Need New Religion - Need LAMP Help...
« on: January 12, 2012, 09:37 AM »
Hey Renegade,
It looks like I'm late to the party. Good luck with your transition.
Just some thoughts in case they come in handy...
1) OpenSuSE is a pretty solid distro. It has it's ism's, but YaST makes it a pretty strong player for a new convert.
2) Centos is RedHat. So is Scientific Linux. This is important as a LOT of server apps are built for RH. 99% of them can run on SuSE. It just seems that a lot of documentation assumes RedHat and so you sometimes have to translate and adjust slightly.
3) Centos/SciLinux/RedHat do not have a direct YaST replacement. You can install something like WebMin to take up the slack. It's really only good for 1 at a time systems, but that probably covers your need.
4) Fedora is not RedHat. I wouldn't use it for a server.
5) Damn near everything in can be configured in a plain text file somewhere. Most of the system stuff live in /etc.
6) Learn the basics of vi. It's always available and very handy for quick file edits.
7) Do use LVM for partitioning your disks. Nothing says cool like adding a new hard drive into your existing FS structure.
EXT4 or BTRFS. EXT4 if you want solid tools. BTRFS if you want cutting edge. (BTRFS has it's on LVM built in... cool)
PM me if you get really stuck. I can usually find someone who knows the answer
It looks like I'm late to the party. Good luck with your transition.
Just some thoughts in case they come in handy...
1) OpenSuSE is a pretty solid distro. It has it's ism's, but YaST makes it a pretty strong player for a new convert.
2) Centos is RedHat. So is Scientific Linux. This is important as a LOT of server apps are built for RH. 99% of them can run on SuSE. It just seems that a lot of documentation assumes RedHat and so you sometimes have to translate and adjust slightly.
3) Centos/SciLinux/RedHat do not have a direct YaST replacement. You can install something like WebMin to take up the slack. It's really only good for 1 at a time systems, but that probably covers your need.
4) Fedora is not RedHat. I wouldn't use it for a server.
5) Damn near everything in can be configured in a plain text file somewhere. Most of the system stuff live in /etc.
6) Learn the basics of vi. It's always available and very handy for quick file edits.
7) Do use LVM for partitioning your disks. Nothing says cool like adding a new hard drive into your existing FS structure.


PM me if you get really stuck. I can usually find someone who knows the answer
