Red hat eneterprise Linux
Well,
RedHat Inc is the only Open Source software company which has crossed
Billion USD mark and has been registering profit as well since its
previous 2 billion USD mark. So, the folks are major leagues and know
quite well what they do. RedHat Enterprise Linux clone called Scientific
Linux is being used to perform all the computing at CERN laboratories,
which is tremendous load, let me tell you. Besides this, Oracle
Enterprise Linux itself has emerged as a major player in Enterprise OS
market and it too is a RHEL clone.
Why RedHat enterprise Linux? Or why any enterprise linux at all?
So,
enterprises have several operations like websites, ERP servers, SAP for
accounts division, setting up and extending storage for newer offices,
constant periodic backing up all these servers as well etc need an
operating system which has to do a lot more than your average OS X or
some Windows Pro or Ultimate. These requirements come under the heading
of scalability of OS along with the requirements. There are far more
stable OSes as well with more than a 1000 hours inbetween successive
reboots. RedHat Enterprise Linux is free to download as it is based on
GNU license and you can look at the code of it all as well. So what
RedHat sells to hundreds of thousands of organisations all across the
world is support along with a free and open operating system which is
running on Linux kernel. The support is not mandatory, you will,
however, will not receive bug fixes either, unlike Debian Enterprise
servers and other Enterprise servers, there will be no package upgrades,
but you can add CentOS repositories in /etc/yum/yum.repos.d/ and all
must seem okay.
GNU/Linux is vast and free,
RedHat is a tiny part of it in terms of application, but a major income
generator as it is among the top most used Enterprise grade OS in the
whole world. You can run web servers and virtualization host/guest and
OpenStack implementation, Libre Office and what the hell not. The
architecture is truly based on Systemd and there is inbuilt SELinux. The
OS is fast to boot, agile, several hardware vendors already support the
OS and well, it is going to take you places, if you are good at it.
But, Debian and Ubuntu and SuSE Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux and
NetBSD and so much more will do the same thing with varying
efficiencies, all being cut-throat, free and open. All these OS have
their features like a package manager, the repositories, the support for
containers and multiprocessing and load sharing and the scalable file
systems etc.
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