I guess I can jump in on this. I run 4 machines in my room, and I also am the admin for my Mom's machine. A lot of you can say what you want for that, but I've had no break ins, and very good uptime. On a SUSE 8.2 Professional machine I had 66 days uptime until I needed to reboot for a Kernel update. I run FTP servers on two Linux boxes, one was SUSE 8.2 and the other is 9.1, and it takes a lot from me. I can generate 3 GBs of traffic over just two boxes in one day backing up MP#s and movies I have on my machines. Just in MP3s, I have like 20 GBS of them, and I sent those across pureFTPd on SUSE 9.1 in one night including 30 GBs of movies. I also put them into my DMZ so I can access them from school, and I've yet to have a break in, or a problem. Other boxes on this LAN: 2 Windows 2000 Professional machines, 3 XP home Edition, because I refuse to pay an extra hundred dollars for 3 networking tools I can download, 2 Free BSD machines, 3 Slackware machine, SUSE 8.1 8.2 and 9.1 Professional, and...Hmm that's about it unless I get bored and put DOS on something. I've had a computer for 4 years now and I can use allof those. I used to have a BeOS machine too but it's gone. On Thursday 09 September 2004 11:07, Bjorn Tore Sund wrote:
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.
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