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...
Ortwin
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