On Friday 07 March 2008 07:50:04 pm Joe Sloan wrote:
Ben Kevan wrote:
I must say the openSUSE repositories (download.opensuse.org) have become quite unreliable for me lately. Like tonight, I am trying to setup a new machine and whlep... guess what? Repositories are down. They were down a few days ago and not to mention the major hardware failure in janurary. Some will say "What do you expect, it's free". My response to that is, I am one of the many that have actually paid for the openSUSE versions, since I do support the project and support novell as a company.
I also have several licesnse of SLED and am pushing SLES in our enterprise (currently RHEL).
LOL keep pushing - we used to be a redhat shop, all sles now.
One small example: on our formerly redhat powered dns servers, which serve about 1000 domains, the named process would crash at random intervals. each dns server would crash several times a week, with something in the logs about "failed assertion at line xxx..." It was apparently a known problem with redhat on smp. It was so bad, we had a cron job running on all dns servers, to check every 3 minutes whether dns was still up, and restart it as needed.
After we switched to suse, I realized some months later that we had never added the cron job to babysit named. It's been a few years now, and not one of the dns servers has ever even hicupped running sles.
That's one example, there are other things I could tell you, but long story short, we found that sles was just a lot more solid.
Joe
Well that's good to know. I am actually a newer "acting Jr Linux Admin". My company is pretty new into the linux world and the senior admin they hired is a RHCE so obviously he pushed RHEL. My role is a VMWare / Sr Windows / Storage administrator and they recently realize.. I know what I am doing when it comes to the Linux stuff, so they are leveraging me. I hope I can start getting more SLES in (Price would be a huge drive if it were lower) otherwise.. it'd be my word vs's the other admins. I am comfortable with both but am much more versed in zypper (we use rhel 4 which uses up2date). We actually run most servers with TWM (depending on the need). Our DNS etc run on Unix server (for now) .. hope that heads our way. :o) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org