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I am busy writing a tutorial on SuSE for the tutorial section and whas wondering how many of you use SuSE and what has been giving you installation problems so far.
Please msg. me or post your questions/tips here. I hav been using SuSE for allmost 3 years now.
I had a SuSE install disk once but never tried it, I wish I had now but I've lost the CD!
I've tried Mandrake and RedHat.
Same goes for me Rewandythal.
Hey just had a look and goes what I found, SuSe Linux 6.4 (complete version with digital guide) and Slackware Linux 7.1.
Man I'm even richer than I thought :D
Focmaester, I would say go ahead. Always useful to have a complete guide, specialy if it has been written by someone who has been using it for 3 years.
I'll be using it for sure. Keep on writting:p
I cut my linux teeth with suse 5.1 - it certainly rocks. Have you ever tried debian focmaester?
So I hate redhat..
I've actually been using suse since 6.4 the only thing I didnt like about it was all the extra's (I'm a vanilla load type guy)
that and the samba install provided was broken so you needed to reinstall before use (but then again a good admin ALWAYS patches everything before deployment) I ran it (7.0) for Firesale.com's backbone for quite a while nobody even knew we were on samba for the first four months. the features are rich, and its quite stable, Yast makes patches quick, and the server ran for a total of 283 days of uptime (shutdown only due to the company closing).
as far as the debian post... (I'm a big debian nut!!! ) I do actually prefer suse over debian.... but then again maybe not..... Slak still takes it!! (I tole ya I'm a vanilla type guy)
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Running SuSe 7.1 on 5 servers no problems here got squirrelmail 1.0.6 running and no probs here....
Just the thing that debian is more stable and better.....
But SuSe is so easy....
I gotta get my hands on some SuSe..
No, I never got the time to test it. I did have a long discussion during HAL2001 with ppl. about SuSE and Debian.Quote:
Originally posted by petemcevoy
I cut my linux teeth with suse 5.1 - it certainly rocks. Have you ever tried debian focmaester?
What I heard is " Debian is nice when you need to control a lot of machines over a network"
What they meant by that exactly beats me.
SuSE is very stable, I have tried RedHat, Mandrake and small floppy distro's as well. What I like about SuSE is when you buy the package you get so much documentation and a lot of packages.
I use SuSE 6.4 as my primary operating system. I have used SuSE for many years for one reason, the mascot is nice looking. I do not see how it is any better than any other linux distribution. Each distribution contains the same crap. I would never even consider SuSE 6.4 for a production environment or for anything more than maybe a webserver or an email server, but that is just because it is linux. We use only solaris 8 at work for the servers, and i do all of my development in solaris. I also use solaris 8 at home on a blade 100. it is far superior to linux.
I'm using SuSE 7.3 and it's very nice.
Easy & complete, reliable & secure.
I prefer it over Mandrake & RedHat
:D
J.
well said oblio, I do have a tendancy to cringe when using linux for core services, I usually stick to BSD for core and Linux on edge level. But then again BSD (and in your case Solaris) have been around for a much longer time. Hence the proven stability!!
Suse is the only Linux distro I've ever used for a core fileserver and I was quite pleased. I may try it again soon, however I'll keep my apache installs on BSD. Although powerful, and quick to evolve! Linux is still in it's infancy (okay so more around the puberty stages) whereas BSD and Solaris are tangling with middle age (oh no, I hope we dont see a mid life crisis!). But you gotta give it props, at least the yearn for stability and growth is there... seems M$ keeps changing things before their platforms even hit adolescence.... kinda scary really.
I suppose it all depends on what tools youre using in my case, one should never stick with a platform simply because of personal taste alone. The platform should match the job. I suppose Linux is moving more toward user friendly desktop type uses, which of course will cut its use among backbone server operations. But it's good to see something with a nice interface and a lot of power.
(and beleive it or not, I actually kinda like NT 4.0......... kinda)
Hey Prophet: I was right about your Linux spirit from the start?Quote:
Originally posted by TheProphet
Same goes for me Rewandythal.
Hey just had a look and goes what I found, SuSe Linux 6.4 (complete version with digital guide) and Slackware Linux 7.1.
Man I'm even richer than I thought :D
Focmaester, I would say go ahead. Always useful to have a complete guide, specialy if it has been written by someone who has been using it for 3 years.
I'll be using it for sure. Keep on writting:p
:)
I'm a big Slackware fan. Gotta love the simplicity!
I'd like to give Suse a try, I've heard good things about it.
I'm using SuSE since 6.2 through to 7.3, the installation is far easier now (as easy as M$ in the positive - but somtime in the negative sense).
We are looking forward to replace some IBM AIX by
SuSE!
Yeah that would be good. I have to use Suse for my networking class next semester. I could definatley use it to get a head in the class.
anyways...
I am kind of a beginner with SuSE and have always heard great things about it so i got a live eval copy of 7.2 (i dont really have much financial resources at this time to get a real copy).
1)How would you boot up into Yast (It automaticly boots into Yast2)?
2)I need it to connect to my Linsys LAN and need the following info...
a)how do i get the domain search list and the nameserverlist that it asks for (i have a win2k adv. srv.)
b)can you give me any hints/knowledge you might have to set up Linux to go through a Linksys Cable/DSL router.
thanks in advance,
mnemonic
Slackware Linux, because simplicity is Divine.
Suse is cool, I feel that it has a very good shot as a contender to Windows on the desktop due to the ever increasing ability of YAST. In a few more releases a user probably won't need to know anything about Linux to use Suse with ease.
By all means write your tutorial, that is what AO needs more of imho.
I had a problem installing Redhat on a 486DX 33 (ancient technologies). The problem was that the HD had too many cylinders (more then 1224 or such), it would install completly but then at the end when it checks the installation or whatever it does then and it would give this error. But what installing LINUX on a more recent computer concerns: can it get easier then this???
The problem is probably that your boot partition is to big,
it has to be in the range of 7,8 GB
Linux can not boot using LILO when the boot partition exceeds the 1023 cylinder.
Create a partition that starts and ends before that cylinder.