On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Eric Kahklen wrote:
I had a discussion with my local LUG and a member had some interesting threads to share. Basically it showed that SUSE 9.0 is not really a production level version. For production level use, it is recommended to go with the Enterprise version of SUSE. Has other people got this impression? My concern is that my company can't afford to purchase any more software at this time so would I be better off looking at something like Debian? I know this is kind of off topic, but basically I am curious if 9.0 Pro is secure and stable enough for my organization needs.
If you need reliable and timely support and long lifecycle you need an enterprise edition. If you're prepared to upgrade every 18 months or so and don't need the extra support, you can manage with a normal edition. On this there is no difference of any significance between the major distros, except of course that Debian has no enterprise edition. I've got SuSE 9.0 production servers. They don't give me problems. Nor do my 8.2 and 9.1 servers. I felt constricted and limited in my freedom to work by SLES 8 when I ran systems with that, but this is a matter of taste. Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: system@mi.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no