On Thursday 09 June 2005 14:25, Hans du Plooy wrote:
The question that I'm struggling with, is which version of SUSE to use. SLES made very good impressions on me, but I will have to add some packages and also upgrade many of the packages that it ships with.
Upgrades besides those in YOU? Can you give some examples?
Which makes me wonder if it is worth the money to pay for SLES (basically for the support)
And for 5 years maintenance, as opposed to 2 years security-only and bug-fix for Professional. The SLES maintenance provides you with Service Packs with updated kernels (new HBA drivers) that you can use to install on newer hardware. It's true that you could install the current version of Professional in that case. But having SLES is not just that, it's certifications for hw and sw, YaST modules, "industry support"--sounds a little too vague, but I don't find better words.
if I'm going to void the support by fiddling with the internals.
How much fiddling? Kernel?
What would be the merits of taking SLES9 over 9.3 in this case? I do realise that SLES' kernel is probably more optimised for network throughput than 9.3, but will two 100mbit connections actually push 9.3 to it's limits, especially considering the hardware?
No, it will not reach any limit. Personally I would install SLES.