Thank you, it is that kind of testimonial that is making me lean towards Red
Hat. And since I am making them purchase a support package, it should be even
easier. And before people push Cent OS (which I have used and enjoyed) let me say,
1) I am the only Linux knowledgeable person in the company,
2) I am currently their only IT staff,
3) I have my degree in, and was hired for, Accounting
not IT/IS.
This place is grate to work for but if I were to be hit by a bus one day, I
would like to know they could call some one to walk them trough any problems
they may have.
Quoting George Toft <
george@georgetoft.com>:
> *** PERSONAL OPINION FOLLOWS ***
>
> I had a SuSE file server serving up a Windows workgroup. One night, the
>
> SuSE updater thing (fou4s) updated samba from version 3 to version 4.
> The new config file was not configured so it did not work. Dead
> fileserver :(
>
> It took less time for me to set up samba using the "old" config on a
> RHEL3 box on the same network than I figured it would be to learn the
> new config file, test, validate, etc.
>
> so......
>
> IMO, I would avoid SuSE. After Novell bought it, the quality took a
> quantum drop (maybe multiple quantum drops). I found it hung frequently
>
> (SuSE Enterprise Server 9 and SuSE Workstation 9.1). I am not
> impressed. For those of you that know me, know that I pushed SuSE for
>
> years. Plenty of distro flame wars in the archives show that I
> supported SuSE. All things change.
>
> Red Hat, on the other hand, is a pleasure to deal with. LSB-compliant,
>
> well documented, stable. I am in charge of over 120 Red Hat Enterprise
>
> Linux servers for one of my clients, and I have only seen one
> vendor-related problem. RHEL 4 has at least two improvements that I
> submitted, which demonstrates their commitment to improving the
> product.
>
> Biggest point to consider is that Red Hat won't change the versions of
>
> the packages you are using. Any security issues that arise are
> back-ported to the supported releases, but you won't see the problem I
>
> had with SuSE described above.
>
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> AGD,LLC
> www.agdllc.com
> 623-203-1760
>
> When was the last time you backed up your business data?
> Excellent! When did you verify that your backups actually worked?
>
>
>
>
>
> Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
> > Ok, I am about to add a file server into our Microsoft domain (I hope)
> I have
> > looked at all the read me's and it seems that samba 4 should handle
> the
> > Microsoft permissions no problem. I am looking at either SuSE 9
> Enterprise or
> > Red Hat Enterprise. Any thought, recommendations, experiences, or
> warnings?
> > It's for my work so I am quite nervous. I real would hat to have them
> drop $3K
> > just to tell them Opps! You have to drop another $8K to make it work
> because
> > were going Microsoft.
> >
> > 1) Has anyone ever done this before?
> > 2) What can you tell me about doing it?
> > 3) If I were to choose SuSE vs. Red Hat as an file server that is
> integrated
> > into a MS Active Directory, which would you recommend and why?
> >
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