2005/9/5, Randall J. Parr <RParr@temporalarts.com>:

I am putting together an Opteron system later this week which will function primarily as a Java/database/sw development workstation and secondarily as a photographic/video workstation.

The system is based on the Supermicro H8DCE motherboard, Opteron 246(s), 4G RAM, and eVGA 7800GTX. I hope to use the motherboard SATA to run (4) 250G SATA drives in Linux software RAID 10

I plan to install SuSE and/or Debian. Probably SuSE for now and try Debian when the current transitions have calmed down a bit.

My question for you folks is: should I install SuSE 9.3 Professional (which I have on other desktops/workstations) or the openSuSE SuSE 10.0?

Hi! I would recommend you to install SUSE 9.3 just because Open SUSE is in beta status. So it is not commendable to use it in a productive environment. When 10.0 is stable you can easily upgrade your system. regards, Florian