Another quick thing about SuSe. You can pick up a copy at BestBuy, both
Personal and Professional editions. Both come with support for like 30 days
as well. The distro includes both CD's and DVD's, so you can pick which one
you want and just install it that way unless you want to go through the
hassle of creating an ISO, etc.
As for Larry Brown's recommendation... I believe the same. SuSe includes
alot of stuff ahead of time so you don't have to worry about recompiling the
kernel alot just to install updates and such (unlike RH and other distros).
In additional to SuSe's YaST for online updates, you can also download other
updaters from Freshmeat.net that do the same, but from the command line (ie.
great from cronjobs and non-assisted workstation/server updates).
-- M
-----Original Message-----
From: flalug@nks.net [mailto:flalug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Larry Brown
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 1:29 PM
To: flalug@nks.net
Subject: RE: [newletters] Re: [flalug] OS recommendation
I believe I am running 8, but 9 is out now. I got the free version by
downloading the install, which is the only way that I know of to get it
free. If this guy is going to use it for a file server as a business I
would buy the professional version ($80) just to make the installation
easier. The actual install process via download is not difficult. It is
downloading a bootable iso, making the disk and then giving the driver for
the network card upon boot just to get to download it. Once the download
starts, you just wait for it to finish and answer some setup questions and
it is done. Having the disk should make it as easy as any MS install I
would think. The reason I like it is that everything is very visually
appealing and the locations of all of the config files is extremely similar
to RH which I cut my teeth on. I have also spent a lot of time recompiling
RH kernel to support FreeSWAN ( a vpn server that is very secure using
IPSEC ) and suse comes with it as an option already compiled into the
kernel. I also had a couple of other options that were already defaulted on
SUSE that I had to change or add to RH to meet my needs ( using boxes as
firewalls/vpn server/web servers/db servers/file servers/mail servers ). I
believe it defaulted to Postfix instead of sendmail and comes with
spamassassin by default. I just liked the install and found it refreshing
to work with. If the access db is sitting in a directory shared by samba,
it won't matter that it is MS as long as the desktop is using MS Access.
Sorry for the book, but I wanted to qualify my recommendation.
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: flalug@nks.net [mailto:flalug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Steve Steiner
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:24 AM
To: flalug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [newletters] Re: [flalug] OS recommendation
> If you intend to migrate to a sql database, what db are you using now?
> (access is a programming/admin tool.)
They created their own "customer contact" system by exporting their Outlook
contact list into Access. Not sure what they will move to, but she
mentioned SQL so that is what I relayed.
> >
> >
> > I have used RH and Mandrake, but none of the others. RH9 looked very
> > similar to Windows XP and I think it's that kind of comfort that the
client
> > wants to help them become aquainted with a new system.
>
> I assumed the client was interested in ms application compatibility, thus
the
> Xandros recommendation. Your client may be disappointed by your choice
based
> on outward appearance. It appears to me you had already decided on RH9
> regardless of solicited recommendation.
Sorry if it appears that way, but I was looking for recommendations. MS
compatibility isn't an issue, since this is just a file server. The only
reason I psuedo-discounted the Xandros recommendation was that the MS
compatibility isn't needed. If it's still a good release, then I'll look
into it.
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