Is anyone using 9.x pro for any mission critical situations? How have they been performing? Is Microsoft mixed in also?
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Is anyone using 9.x pro for any mission critical situations? How have they been performing? Is Microsoft mixed in also?
yeah, my husband runs his entire consulting business as well as the stuff he does as a pro futbal ( Soccer) ref ( U.S Emeritus, for anyone who cares <g>) And teh editorials etc he does for some of the magazines etc. etc/ The only MS is coutesy of Crossover Office, which he has reported on... I don't have any MS on any of my own nets.. and since I'm part owner of the biz it gives me an edge on other IT techs who have to go 'cap in hand' to the suits... Still, I tend to wander on the bleeding edge a lot, and so far none of the stuff he does has been lost do to anything that Suse has done... and we truely can't say that about the MS software .. And if you want a really "interesting time" try having a 3day install fest, no time outs, barring the one or two hours you nod off w/ your eyes open FINALLY getting to bed, and just 30 min into your sleep cycle you hear someone screaming that the computer has eaten whatever article it is that is on deadline.!! One of MS's worms did that to him when he was first testing to see if he could even use Linux as opposed to the w2k , which already had spit an orb disk out at his head when he hit the 'go" button in his MS software backup . The email came in and the worm didn't even need him to open or preview IIRC... and it "apparently" rewrote the fat table, and it definately forced a reboot... and when it rebooted the box thought it was too small a drive to even install a dos5 OS on!! Took 9 hours to get him back to where he had been two weeks prior. He never used that OS since, except in situations like we had last week where at a conference no one had a linux box setup ( hence the new search for some sort of lappy , er laptop ) Although if I had the 9.2 live eval I might just have been tempted. <very evil grin> after all the thing was all in my custody, and I could have rebooted w/o any problems. In fact I did reboot it once.. ( yeah, I had to but didn't have the Suse disk w/ me<sigh> ) -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Bridge wrote: | Is anyone using 9.x pro for any mission critical situations? How have they been performing? Is Microsoft mixed in also? I'm running Tomcat with a few applications (Citrix NFuse, web-based helpdesk, MySQL, & PHP). They work very well and I haven't had any problems. The only MS server runs Citrix MetaFrame that the NFuse app talks to so that it can put a web interface to Windows based applications. Everything else that I run on the linux server (dual Opteron) replaced Windows based apps/servers. MySQl replaced Microsoft SQL and PHP replaced ASP web pages. I've got a couple more things to migrate over still, eventually will move the Microsoft Proxy Server to Squid, and a document delivery system that used IIS to an Apache/Perl setup. Overall, quite pleased with the results (box has twice the workload and better response that the either of the Windows servers thtat it replaced) and increased uptime from not needing to reboot because I put a patch in place. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBhl0+5JB+bPW3+KwRArxrAJ0WWW9VeEGxxlQnmnmG1Et5pAT5fwCfRBK5 hw100HgyanwrpqsWHylizlU= =15M2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Aaron Bridge
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jfweber@bellsouth.net
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John Scott