Re: [SLE] Which Linux?

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:50 +0100, Steve Graegert wrote:
On 3/24/06, Matthew Stringer <qube@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Should add that we're responsible for the boxes customers don't get root
access.

However our current platform runs on FreeBSD, but the problem we're having
there is that the hardware compatability isn't as good as Linux, this is
bargain basement hosting and the servers we're using are essentially
desktops, we find that the chipset revisions are constantly changing and
frequently find that BSD won't install on a new server that was supposed to
be identical to our current stock without manual intervention. Linux suffers
with this problem far less which makes deployment costs lower.

Ok, so your hardware platforms are changing constantly? This makes
things different. With a free Linux distribution you're always at
risk that support for security updates will end some day. Usually, it
should not be that hard to patch server systems manually (assisted by
some sort of automation). My recommendation in this case: Debian.

Why not use a more powerful server and then use VMWare GSX server and
create virtual machines? That way the -hardware- is always the same. Or
use Zen.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998


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