[nflug] what's your linux admin IQ?

Darin Perusich Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com
Tue Nov 4 08:33:21 EST 2008


This question has nothing to do with them being enterprise distro, that
meant to confuse you. CentOS, Fedora, and Oracle are all derived from
the Redhat sources where SuSE is it's own animal.

Cyber Source wrote:
> You do have a point but I would say their answer is the more notable
> difference. What exactly is "enterprise level" suppose to be anyway? I
> know the support and stability reasons but that's like saying a desktop
> release versus a server release, it's just a matter of package
> installations in the end. That question did trip me up too, I was not
> aware of Oracle's release at all, and in haste and ignorance, I chose
> that. I also got tripped up by the grub question as I was unaware that
> LILO could not boot from a network.
> 
> K O wrote:
>> Now that I'm looking at the answer key, I dispute the one question
>> that asks which one of the four is not like the other: Cent OS,
>> Fedora, SuSE Enterprise, and Oracle.  Fedora is the different one,
>> because it's not an enterprise-level distro.  They said SuSE, because
>> the other 3 are based on Red Hat Enterprise.  I don't dispute their
>> answer, but I say there is more than one answer.
>>
>> And I should've known Nvidia as the proprietary sourced driver.  But I
>> didn't choose that choice, and I must live with it.  So I can't argue
>> 75%, but am I not justified in asking for 70%
>>
>> Cyber Source pisze:
>>> Interesting little 20 question quiz. Let's test our Linux knowledge!
>>> No googling!!
>>> I got a 75. Be careful, READ the questions carefully, a few are trick
>>> questions!
>>> http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-11-03
>>>
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