Most popular flavor of linux to learn for work?

[Nitemare]

I have a couple years experience in UNIX/AIX and I was thinking of trying fedora, debian or freebsd to diversify my skillset..

 

[Nitemare]

?

 

[Bateluer]

Most popular right now seem to be Gentoo, Fedora, and Debian. You might have better luck in the OS forum though.

 

[skace]

The only version of linux I've seen at my work is Redhat. I believe it is because of support and not necessarily overall functionality.

 

[n0cmonkey]

FreeBSD isn't Linux.

 

[Armitage]

What kind of work?
Whatever your sysadmins like to use would seem to be a good answer.

I find that as primarily an end user on the stuff they take care of, it makes little difference to me - our guys are partial to SuSe.
On my desktop and systems that admin, I use what I like.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
FreeBSD isn't Linux.

I know, but I am 10 times more familiar with Unix.

Thanks for the suggestions so far

Originally posted by: Armitage
What kind of work?
Whatever your sysadmins like to use would seem to be a good answer.

I find that as primarily an end user on the stuff they take care of, it makes little difference to me - our guys are partial to SuSe.
On my desktop and systems that admin, I use what I like.

Currently laid off so just seeking to pep up my resume and learn some things

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Most popular right now seem to be Gentoo, Fedora, and Debian. You might have better luck in the OS forum though.

For home users maybe.

For business, in the US, it's probably Redhat Enterprise, then a big gap, then SUSE Enterprise, then another big gap, then everything else. In Europe, reverse Redhat and SUSE.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Most popular right now seem to be Gentoo, Fedora, and Debian. You might have better luck in the OS forum though.

For home users maybe.

For business, in the US, it's probably Redhat Enterprise, then a big gap, then SUSE Enterprise, then another big gap, then everything else. In Europe, reverse Redhat and SUSE.

K, redhat and fedora are essentially bastard twins separated at birth, no?

Any major differences?

 

[znaps]

I'd go for something like Slackware.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Get one of the redhat enterprise clones. I think white box and centos are two of them.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: znaps
I'd go for something like Slackware.

:thumbsup:

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Get one of the redhat enterprise clones. I think white box and centos are two of them.

Good idea, looking into those now.

 

[bockchow]

SUSE 9.3 is realy nice. best install i've ever seen on any OS.

 

[naldo]

Linspire

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Get one of the redhat enterprise clones. I think white box and centos are two of them.

Good idea, looking into those now.

I've installed Redhat Enterprise 3 and CentOS 3 & 4 and the only difference I found in CentOS is that the update monitor does not show the advisory information in CentOS. Never tried white box or lineox. When I did my research before, white box took a while to update and lineox charges for updates, so I went wtih CentOS.

 

[sourceninja]

We use gentoo at work, but not seriously. For the most part we still keep with the old standby of Sun box's and solaris. Yea its not linux, but it has a level of support that just can't be beat at educational prices.

For learning linux, i'd suggest you start with ubuntu and then move on from there. Once you learn a linux, the rest is just a small amount of syntax and leanring the package managment, all easy stuff.