Which Linux?
one of our (se) customers is buying a new server, and is thinking of abandonning unixware and moving to linux. is there a concensus as to the best flavour of Linux or version? our linux customers are all on a variety of redhat from 6 through 7 to enterprise 2. my favourite linux from ad admin point of view is suse though .... thanks neil
When I lasted tried (Oct '03) SE didn't work on RH9 and IBM had no fix date. Suse.latest was fine though Cheers Paul Neil Truby wrote: > > one of our (se) customers is buying a new server, and is thinking of > abandonning unixware and moving to linux. > > is there a concensus as to the best flavour of Linux or version? > > our linux customers are all on a variety of redhat from 6 through 7 to > enterprise 2. > > my favourite linux from ad admin point of view is suse though .... > > thanks > neil -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #
Neil Truby wrote: > one of our (se) customers is buying a new server, and is thinking of > abandonning unixware and moving to linux. > > is there a concensus as to the best flavour of Linux or version? > > our linux customers are all on a variety of redhat from 6 through 7 to > enterprise 2. > > my favourite linux from ad admin point of view is suse though .... We've got truckloads on RH7.[23], and the team using it has been deploying RH8 lately. Apparently RH9 has some kernel issues (what, on RedHat? No WAY!!!) that stop Informix from working properly. Another team has deployed some SuSE and has no problems especially kernel drift. They are happy with that. Don't know anything about any other flavour of Linux.
Paul Watson wrote: >When I lasted tried (Oct '03) SE didn't work on RH9 and IBM had no fix >date. Suse.latest was fine though > >Cheers >Paul > >Neil Truby wrote: > > >>one of our (se) customers is buying a new server, and is thinking of >>abandonning unixware and moving to linux. >> >>is there a concensus as to the best flavour of Linux or version? >> >>our linux customers are all on a variety of redhat from 6 through 7 to >>enterprise 2. >> >>my favourite linux from ad admin point of view is suse though .... >> >>thanks >>neil >> >> > > > IIRC one of the security upgrades to SUSE broke Informix, basically putting you in the same boat as RH (corrections anyone?). Not too much of a problem as anyone with support, after a bit of tooth pulling, can get a beta of the SDK etc which willould run on the new glibc. Having said that, I think you would be better with SUSE, not because I'd recommend it, but because I would no longer recommed RH. We are a long time RH shop, having just retired out last 5.2 box, now running from 6.2 through to RH9/RHEL3.0 but it's hard to justify today's expensive versions of RH when we don't usually apply the updates. As always, YMMV. -- Scott Burns Mirrabooka Systems Tel +61 7 3857 7899 Fax +61 7 3857 1368
"Scott Burns" <scott@mirrabooka.com> wrote in message news:vGTXb.753$KW.43269@news.optus.net.au... > Having said that, I think you would be better with SUSE, not because I'd > recommend it, but because I would no longer recommed RH. We are a long > time RH shop, having just retired out last 5.2 box, now running from 6.2 > through to RH9/RHEL3.0 but it's hard to justify today's expensive > versions of RH when we don't usually apply the updates. As always, YMMV. That (RedHat's push towards supporting only its paid versions) is of course one of the considerations. As a correspondent to UK's Computer Weekly put it recently, just as Microsoft has finally acknowledged it has something to fear from Linux, one of the major suppliers has rocked the boat. Fancy Redhat wanting to make money out of their distribution. How vulgar!