SuSE is a well developed and integrated package. All that is needed is the desktop version for $50+bucks, unlimited usage.
OpenAFS works well with SuSE and development fixes are typically 24 hour turnaround. It's a small price to pay for something that works. And Novell is protected from future MS infringement claims. Tedc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Devine Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:51 AM To: OpenAFS-Info Subject: [OpenAFS] Linux afs client suggestions. For years we have maintained classroom 'gateway' boxes that ran an afs client and exported user space via samba. These machines were always Suns of some flavor running Solaris. Now we have been mandated to migrate to x86 and we have been experimenting with different Linux OS's. We would very much like an OS that will keep the afs client in sync with the kernel. We thought we were ok with Suse but the 10.1 release doesn't include the client rpms. I know that we can get Fedora rpms from openafs but I question how closely they follow the kernel releases. How is Debian, Ubuntu , Slackware , Mandriva in this regard? Would we get better results with Red Hat Enterprise? What are the experiences of others? We maintain over 100 of these machines all over campus and while we can clone and rebuild over the net it would be more convenient if we could just keep the boxes patched without having to replace the afs client with every kernel update. Thanks /sd -- Steve Devine Network Storage and Printing Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University 506 Computer Center East Lansing, MI 48824-1042 1-517-432-7327 Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical. - Yogi Berra _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
