[solved] CentOS Vs. Scientific Linux

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-09-14 18:00:14

As I mentioned in another thread, I'm trying to get into the white hat/penetration testing field and am going to buy me a cheapo desktop kit and turn it into a server so I can learn how to hack it. I know Red Hat is the industry standard (for Linux servers at least), but I don't particuarly want to pay for it since I'm only going to be using it for this project, and I know CentOS and Scientific Linux are based off it and are free so what's the differences between them, and which is easier to set up, or are they basically the same? I have fairly limited experience with setting up/maintaining servers.

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Leonid.I · 2011-09-14 19:40:37

They have exactly the same philosophy and take their srpms from the same source (RH). SL has some packages not found in centos, simpy because the devs have the goal of unifying workstation installations across different high-energy physics research groups. Put it another way, SL is like centos + an extra repo.

flamelab · 2011-09-14 21:39:59

Scientific Linux is used at CERN I would really appreciate a distro that it being used at such a crucial task.

pseudonomous · 2011-09-16 15:54:39

CentOS is extremely common in "real-world" applications like web-hosting, Scientific Linux is a bit less common, although it's userbase has grown quite a bit thanks to the length of time it's taken CentOS to release a 6-series version. I think in the "business" world you are probably more likely to run into CentOS than Scientific Linux, but they're close enough to each other that you aren't going to have a lot of trouble going from one to the other.

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-09-16 16:27:15

Thanks for your responses. I think I'm going to try Scientific Linux mainly because it's used at CERN, I didn't know that. That's cool. The name makes so much more sense now

Leonid.I · 2011-09-16 17:41:28

Yes, and centos is a basis for rocks, which is used at the same cern + multiple other institutions for HPC clusters...

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-09-16 17:45:32

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm, or am I misreading your post?

jb · 2011-09-28 17:44:06

FWIW, my sarcasm radar didn't pick up anything.

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[solved] CentOS Vs. Scientific Linux

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