To what extent RHEL Deployment Guide can be used for ubuntu?

[Daniel J Blueman]

On 22 July 2010 03:31, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't find a deployment guide in ubuntu as complete as the following
> one from RHEL.
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/index.html
>
> Although I do see man pages, but I'd prefer a complete guide rather
> than scattered manuals. Ubuntu has a manual http://ubuntu-manual.org/,
> but for example missing autofs (I know this is available in the man
> page, but I prefer a complete manual, as I can always check a man page
> if I want), which is available from RHEL deployment guide.
>
> Note that I'm not complaining ubuntu doesn't provide a complete
> manual. Rather I want to understand what the difference is between
> RHEL and ubuntu, so that I can understand to what extent I can use
> RHEL deployment guide for ubuntu.
>
> In particular, I want to set a cluster of 4 servers (maybe expanded
> later). I know that RHEL are commonly used for servers (maybe that is
> why it has a more complete guide?). My understanding is that ubuntu
> should have whatever packages available in RHEL. But why RHEL is
> popular for servers (or maybe I'm wrong at this point)?
>
> In case that there is a disadvantage to set the servers use ubuntu,
> maybe I should just use RHEL without worrying the document
> completeness?

My experience of deploying both Ubuntu LTS and Redhat EL servers is
simply people/organisations simply expect Redhat, from being used to
it. This is changing, and I am find more and more performance losses,
limitations and lack of packages, all addressed by a ubuntu-server LTS
release.

Much of the Redhat deployment guide is relevant, since it talks about
protocols and strategies for deploying services, and you can find the
equivalent packages often with 'apt-cache search <package>' or equiv
in Synaptic.
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Daniel J Blueman