Would be nice to chair some experiences regarding opensuse via instant message.
My ym is "phaceton"
On 11/2/07, Ortwin Ebhardt
Hello,
is it openSUSE suitable for being a server??? any option, maybe another distro?
We have some customers with openSuSE (10.2) running on their servers. They use them for several things: NMS (Nagios, Cacti), as a base for several databases (oracle mostly), there are even some with Lotus Domino on top.
Nevwertheless, most use the enterprise product (SLES10); especially on HP Servers this has some benefits. Upto now I wasn't able to install HP Inisght Agents on openSuSE 10.2 (have not tried on 10.3 yet). It is not supported by HP.While on openSuSE 9 the stuff for SLES9 works, on SuSE 10 the agents for SLES10 do not. If you want to use your server for monitoring other HP Servers (with the HP Insight Manager) you allso should tunr to SLES, as openSuSE is not supported from HP.
As for other distributions, it heavily depends on what you want to do. For most 3rd.-party-appliations there are limits, on what they support their product. (Domino for example is supported on most enterprise products.)
Solaris and FreeBSD are not Linux; they behave different, and some things are not availyble for them. But both make extremly stable (and, if configured right, secure) servers.
Hpe that helps...
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