Randall R Schulz wrote:
And many people will advise you _not_ to use SuSE Pro or Fedora for such systems and stick to the more reliable "enterprise" variants from the respective vendors.
Yeah, well. Those variants have only been around for so long - they weren't around when most of my systems were installed, and I'm not convinced there is anything gained by changing now. But quite possibly in the future.
My employer runs its huge fleet of production Linux systems on RHEL3. Sadly, we have to use the same for development, which irks me, but I live with it.
To some extent I can't help thinking that the various "enterprise" versions are nothing more than a safety-blanket for pointy-haired managers.
Again, SuSE Professional is a leading-edge distribution. If you have these requirements, then it's a dubious choice to use such a distribution instead of one of the more stable enterprise counterparts.
What did people do _before_ the enterprise versions came about? Did we all run dubious systems? Most systems here are based on SuSE 8.2, one or two are still 7.3, and I think one or two non-critical boxes might be on 9.0 by now. There's little bleeding edge around here. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Starting at EUR30/year - sign up for your free 30-day trial now!