Would be nice to chair some experiences regarding opensuse via instant message. My ym is "phaceton"
On 11/2/07, Ortwin Ebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- I have made this letter longer than usual, because i lack the time to make it short. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
