I'm catching up with this thread with interest after just coming into work this morning. Kern, my sympathy. I can imagine how frustrated you are, but it just goes to show how good a programmer you are, that it wasn't Bacula after all!
After reading the merits & weaknesses of RHEL, SUSE, & Centos, I have only one question. Have you considered or tried Debian lately? I settled on Debian several years ago after becoming disenchanted with each of the major commercial distributions and haven't regreted it for a moment. (My servers are humming along happily with Debian AMD64-Sarge & Bacula 1.36 as we speak!) Three Cheers for Bacula! cmr On Friday 29 September 2006 08:00, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 29 September 2006 14:39, Alan Brown wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you > > >> don't buy the support package (about US$10/machine) > > > > > > The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That > > > is > > too > > > > much for me. For a company or someone serious about servers, that's OK > > and > > > > quite far given their security updates. > > > > Redhat offer some discounts for developers, etc. > > That is interesting. > > > As a Bacula feature request is now in their system and has been requested > > by at least 25 different customers, they may well be interested in giving > > you a free license for development purposes. > > Hmmm. That is even more interesting. > > I actually have RHEL and access to their network, but that is because I > administer a machine, where the organization (MercyShips) has a global > RedHat license. That said, other than having the CDs for recovery > purposes, which unfortunately I needed recently, I cannot load them on my > machines. > > > I don't disagree with your assessment of installations - I use suse at > > home, but I have serious issues with their level of professionalism in > > the commercially supported products. > > Well, distros are a bit of a religious thing and very personal. I look for > leading edge software, good update/security service, and stability. RedHat > is excellent for that, but now that they are commercial, too expensive. > Fedora as you say and as I experienced is too "bleeding edge". I asked > them to use a 9 month release cycle, and they sent me a very kind reply > giving their reasons for a 6 month cycle. I then looked at a lot of > distros: debian, kubantu, ubantu, madrivia, ... However, most of them > wouldn't even install on a leading edge Dell (debian, ubantu), others > (kubantu) are for users that don't know Unix or the distro is a one man > show without a significant organization, or rely on other distros for > security patches, ... > > For me, for the moment, with the exception of this SCSI bug, SuSE has been > great (as I say, for me). One good thing from the time I wasted on this > "bug" is that I learned that within certain restrictions (SeLinux, > AppArmor, ...), unlike rpms, I can mix and match kernels from different > distros as I want. > > > (Having said that, RHEL installation is also very straoghtforward) > > Yes, but if *anything* goes wrong, it simply dies. SuSE has a vga > exception handler that takes over (sort of like a rescue disk) that allows > you in many cases to get out of trouble -- e.g. switch where the source CDs > are coming from, .... really quite cool. > > > AB > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
