[clug-talk] Enterprise Linux?

[Niels Voll]

An honest question - since I can't profess to be an expert on 
Slackware:  how comfortable are you (and other Slackware experts) with 
the distros' survivability, if something should happen to its chief 
maintainer? From what I had read, there was a recent rather serious 
health scare (fortunately seems ok now) - so this issue can become very 
real in a hurry ...

I'm asking the question, since for an enterprise situation without 
considerable inhouse expertise, you'd really hate to be stuck with a 
strategic tool to your infrastructure, if that tool would seriously 
suffer from the absence of a single individual. Of course, if you have 
significant inhouse expertise, the hop to a different distro isn't as 
dramatic as hopping between operating systems or even hopping between 
various flavours of Unix.

...Niels


Michael Gale wrote:

> Hello,
>
>     I agree with Travis, Debian or Slackware make a enterprise distro. 
> I my self am a big Slackware fan.
>
> Michael.
>
>
> Travis Rousseau wrote:
>
>> Ok sorry but the DVD Novell sent me was a dud :( just won't work!
>>
>> I would recommend Debian woody or Slackware for enterprise "like" 
>> situations or where you need low maintenance equipment and want 
>> stability but dont need really good support (In my opinion google can 
>> provide some of the best support just by googling the errors)
>>
>> I use Suse 9.2 and the like for more desktop situations where 
>> stability is not as critical (In my opinion)
>>
>> Travis R.
>>
>> Travis Rousseau wrote:
>>
>>> Well for Redhat I have one RHEL3 server and a few RH9 and FC3 
>>> computers.  From them there is a few main differences the first is 
>>> support for RHEL Redhat provides support right to you. For FC3 you 
>>> find what support you can (You'll find it for everything!). The 
>>> second main difference is your not using release packages (or at 
>>> least me) with RHEL3 your using old packages with security fixes 
>>> back ported to older "Known to be fully stable". Now with fedora 
>>> core you get the packages at release time and they have undergone 
>>> little if any testing so you do not know how well it will react in 
>>> the situation it is put in and you must worry about package 
>>> discrepancys.
>>>
>>> I will install a Suse Enterprise server 9 from novell right now and 
>>> report back the diffrences for suse.
>>>
>>>
>>> Travis R.
>>>
>>> Shawn wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a contact who is considering an enterprise Linux solution, 
>>>> but I don't think he really needs one.  Before I give him my 
>>>> "formal" opinion, I thought I'd ask what the difference is between 
>>>> a regular desktop version and the enterprise version of Linux. (say 
>>>> Suse Pro vs Suse Enterprise)
>>>>
>>>> As I understand things (and freely admit I could be wrong), there 
>>>> is no difference other than the bundled support contract with the 
>>>> Enterprise edition.  Is this correct?  Or are there other 
>>>> differences in terms of available packages or the "quality" of the 
>>>> packages?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any input.
>>>>
>>>> Shawn
>>>>
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