I think something has to be said for the "enterprise" server distros put out by RedHat and Novell/Suse. The main reason for even going with RH or Suse is the coveted 3rd party vendor support/certification, which I know Ubuntu would like to have and is working towards.
In my experience, server installations tend to be headless and minimal as a server tends to serve a more specific purposes. I started with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 four years ago, and now run a mixture of SLES 9 & 10 installations, including having one of the serves attached to a SAN. Needless to say, we've haven't had any issues in the past few years. Just in case if you're wondering which 3rd party applications we're running on SLES, it's Oracle9i, ColdFusion MX 7, and the Novell GroupWise web client. -Dutch On 3/14/07, FWP mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great news about the move Simon. Looking forward to seeing you at the May meeting <g> But actually I am quite taken with the Red Hat Server distro. I have not had to reinstall in the 2 years since I have had it ... yet it is currently completely 'up to date' with their current distro through their version of Up2Date which keeps things ... well ... up to date <g> But I like Ubuntu for desktops ... at least for now. Doing an upgrade very so often is not much of an issue for a desktop ... at least when it is set up with that in mind <wink> MikeD
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