The first place to start is hardware compatibility. Do all of the flavors that you are considering support whatever hardware you will run on ? Are you using an SMP server and are all of the drivers that you need to support the SMP server version of the kernel bug free and supported ? How much memory will you plan to use (you mention Oracle and I know that requires lots) ? I believe different versions of linux support different amounts of memory. We are in the process of converting over to Red Hat AS 2.1. Unlike most shops our dumb terminals out number PCs So, we need to run port servers. We are still messing with digi portservers. It turned out that there was a bug in the driver that prevented it from working with the SMP kernel. So, you wouldn't want to go out and spend money on servers that you cant really utilize. So, start with what hardware you will be working with (now and future possibilities). Then narrow down from there. I believe that in the end they will all run Universe just as well as the other. The question almost becomes which flavor or provider will provide the support you need and which does your administrator prefer.
We settled with Red Hat, because they are really making a good go at supporting business needs and making the system less complicated to administer. I really like their up2date, which keeps your machine current with all the latest patches. It automates this administration and just makes things easier for you. Their support is just ok. I have posted a few questions to their online support and I haven't got the best response. We did call once and they were able to answer our question a little better. But there was a considerable wait on the phone. Anthony Dzikiewicz -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sara Burns Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:32 PM To: U2 List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: [U2] UniVerse on Linux As part of our server strategy we are investigating possibly running UniVerse on Linux. This seems to pose a number of questions re the type of Linux to use. I have obtained 10.1.1 for RedHat but our Oracle team is leaning towards SUSE and we see that this is only listed on the Availability Matrix at version 10.0.8 Is the matrix very out of date or is there a large difference between the different flavours of Linux. Are there good reasons to select one flavour over the other. Opinions would be welcome on or off list. Regards, Sara Burns Sara Burns (SEB) Development Team Leader Public Trust Phone: +64 (04) 474-3841 (DDI) Mobile: 027 457 5974 < <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information contained in this communication is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient the information should not be used, disclosed, copied or commercialised. The information is not necessarily the views nor the official communication of Public Trust. No guarantee or representation is made that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
