Re: openSUSE as small bussiness server

Bernd Felsche wrote:
Of course. But then the problem of short lifetime still remains.

Not a problem for a lot of companies. They like to "roll over" their
server hardware every 3 years or so anyway. There must be good
"accounting reasons" as technically; server-class hardware runs for
a decade or more if you look after it reasonably well.

openSUSE is 2 years. Also sever hardware is used much longer then 3
years. Desktops is indeed often just three years as that is the lease
period, although I see many ushing towards 5 years.

If you're using SLES, then you will have an older kernel than
openSuSE; and migration to new server hardware can be hampered.
Somebody will have to back-port drivers.

SLE does upgrades. openSUSE does only security updates.
Also having an older kernel on a server is not a bad thing. On a server
more then anywhere else: if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

houghi
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