I am investigating promoting a desktop box I have here to be a local server however it currently dualboots between Win XP and SuSE 10.0. The 'server'(Box A) will host many things including mail, file storage,WINE and printserver functions. It does not have a working internet cnx but has a network card connecting it via a switch to another machine(Box B) that I currently use that does have an internet connection. Box B will be set as the dialup gateway,firewall,IDS/IPS and proxy. I was/am hoping to use SuSE 10.1 as the 'server' OS but many of the threads I have seen so far, find fault with the latest software release from Novell. Given that this is for a minimal budget location(home) environment, and anybody doesn't want grief from the system whilst still maintaining maximum usefulness, what Suse or other version would you install? Ideas?
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I was/am hoping to use SuSE 10.1 as the 'server' OS but many of the threads I have seen so far, find fault with the latest software release from Novell.
I've just installed 10.1 on 1) an IBM Thinkpad R51e 2) a Compaq PL6400R (4-way, 4Gb) 3) a Compaq PL5500 4) 4 x Dell Optiplex PII 400MHz 5) a 1GHz Althon on an Iwill board 6) an ASUS booksize barebone with a 2GHz Celeron 7) a P4 workstation. Minor things: 1) needed to install wifi support from madwifi 2) unusual combination of 2 ATI Rage IIC graphics devices caused sax2 to fail. Was easily fixed, and mostly irrelevant. 3) no problems. 4) no problems. 5) no problems. 6) no problems. 7) no problems. I'd go with 10.1. /Per Jessen, Zürich OZ1HZV (inactive)
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