On Wednesday 31 March 2004 15:08, Peter Albrecht wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Wednesday 31 March 2004 15:05, Mark Tinka wrote: > > o SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional > > o Kernel 2.4.20 > > ... > > > generally, are there any tips anyone can advise > > regarding the best i can get out of my > > hardware/software configuration..?.. it's been a while > > since i've built an enterprise squid box, and i want > > to do it right the first time... pretty much excited > > and looking forward to it.. > > SUSE 8.2 is definitely _not_ the OS of choice for running a server in a > corporate environment. OTOH, it is stable & if you don't want support from SuSE, its fine. > If you need any support for this machine, you should > run SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 (which is based on SUSE LINUX 8.1). Only > for this OS SUSE LINUX will provide any support and maintenance for more > than about two years (which is the normal lifetime for the SUSE LINUX 8.x, > 9.x). SLES 8 is supported for at least five years from General Availability > of the product (which means support and maintenance will be available until > 2007). I have to say this looks like a blatant commercial for the more expensive SLES, where the cheaper product (I'd use 9.0) is fine. I have corporate servers running every release of SuSE Linux from 7.0 onwards - and have used 5.3 (IIRC) for the same.
Graham > Regards, > > Peter -- Rock Computer Consultancy Unix, Linux, C, TCP/IP, Python, Perl, etc. www.rockcons.co.uk The answer is always "Yes".
