For the Linux people; Redhat vs SUSE on the job?

I'm a Windows SysAdmin and we currently have a half dozen CentOS 5.5 machines at my current job. I also use Fedora 14 at home. I've been trying to get up to speed on Linux and feel like sticking with the RedHat derivatives as opposed to trying a new distro whenever something new comes out has really helped me.
I have a job interview coming up and it sounds like something I'd really like. They have an upgrade of VMWare from 3.5 to 4.1 in the works and virtualization is really my focus right now. Anyway the guy told me that they use SUSE and he really doesn't like RedHat. I don't remember how he described it, but he made it sound like it was too specialized and SUSE is more open.
This is the job description.
Experience with MS Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, Active Directory Architecture, deployment and group policies Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise server (SLES), OES NetWare (On Linux).
Experience with multiple virtualization products including VMware ESX and VMware desktop.
Experience with tools used to analyze and perform bulk changes to LDAP directory content including Apache LDAP studio and MS Access.
Experience with XML, LDIF, VB script., SSL and secure communications, SLP, DDNS, YAST, RPM, PAM., CRON, Sniffer Pro and Wire Shark .
Is going into a SUSE environment going to screw up all the good linux mojo I have going on? I like working in Fedora/CentOS now. Is there a real difference?
I have a job interview coming up and it sounds like something I'd really like. They have an upgrade of VMWare from 3.5 to 4.1 in the works and virtualization is really my focus right now. Anyway the guy told me that they use SUSE and he really doesn't like RedHat. I don't remember how he described it, but he made it sound like it was too specialized and SUSE is more open.
This is the job description.
Experience with MS Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, Active Directory Architecture, deployment and group policies Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise server (SLES), OES NetWare (On Linux).
Experience with multiple virtualization products including VMware ESX and VMware desktop.
Experience with tools used to analyze and perform bulk changes to LDAP directory content including Apache LDAP studio and MS Access.
Experience with XML, LDIF, VB script., SSL and secure communications, SLP, DDNS, YAST, RPM, PAM., CRON, Sniffer Pro and Wire Shark .
Is going into a SUSE environment going to screw up all the good linux mojo I have going on? I like working in Fedora/CentOS now. Is there a real difference?
Comments
In the end it comes down to pennies. Both use RPM as their packaging system and both have helpers and GUIs for some stuff. They are both Linux Distros and I would say that they equal in about 80%+.
I prefer RedHat/CentOS because Yast used to be a real pita. It used to re-create and override configs if you started it. This lead to person A editing the config by hand and person B running Yast a few days later ruining everything.
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I remember back when I first started playing with Unix and the concept of package management was very in the rough. did a whole lot of compiling things by hand.
And then there was having to setup X and it's config files by hand...... bad, bad times
I still prefer RHEL/CentOS over SLES, but you'll be fine. Like others have said, Unix is Unix.
If the guy says RHEL is more specialized and SUSE is more open then he is probably biased because of the corporate support RHEL has received. It is an uneducated statement as Linux is Linux in the end. I typically throw the fact that Novell is tied to Microsoft when someone makes comments like that. The little details are what makes the distro easier to use.
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