Upgrade question

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:28:02PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
>Jay Ashworth cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
>> 
>> My personal opinion is to upgrade to SuSE 10(.2).
>
>He means OpenSuSE, and I concur.  Novell screwed up SuSE Linux Enterprise
>Server 10 so badly with service pack 1 that it won't boot after patching
>without modifying the boot loader config.  That config was written
>incorrectly in different ways on two servers that were identically
>configured.  I am not pleased with Novell right now, esp. when they would
>have charged $650 for direct help for one instance on a patch they broke
>for an overpriced commercial version.  Without a support contract there is
>no reason to buy it, and every reason to go OpenSuSE.

I find that rather interesting considering the length of time that the
SLES10-SP1 was in beta.

I spent most of last week getting up to speed including kickstart automatic
installtion for CentOS 5 which is basically Red Hat Enterprise 5 without
support.

As much as I think that SuSE's engineering is the best of the Linux
distributions, I haven't been impressed with their support, even when one
is a SuSE ``Partner''.  I find the CentOS/RH documentation far superior,
and have been able to get questions answered very quickly on a couple of
Linux mailing lists (it also helps to have low friends in high places :-).

Bill
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