CentOS VS Suse 10

[seankoshy]

What advantage is there in using Suse 10 vs free CentOS besides support?
Thanks in advance,

Sean

[Valerion]

Besides support, IMO nothing. And you get to upgrade Suse with every Scalix release (or second release, maybe). IMO using OpenSuse and Fedora is not worth the hassle.

[a.schild]

If you mean Suse Enterprise Server 10, then you will get the following advantages:

- Support from Suse/Novell for the OS
- Yast

With Centos you don't have a company who is "responsible" to support you. (But you have a great community)

In console-only centos you miss something like yast, but with some experience it doesn't hurt.

On the other side, you get Centos for free, no matter how many users are using the server.


If you mean the OpenSuse 10.3 release.... forget about it, or you will have to make a OS upgrade almost with each second scalix release.

[Valerion]

Thanks for pointing that out. I was also referring to OpenSuse, of course.

When it comes to production installs, I will recommend RHEL, SLES and Xandros first to my clients. Having professional support available is good peace of mind.

I have used RHEL support before, and I was quite impressed with the way they handled my problem, got it back up and running without a problem. I don't have a lot of Xandros and SLES customers, so I cannot say how good they are first-hand.

[seankoshy]

Totally forgot about Xandros. How does it compare vs SLES / CentOS? Anyone have any stories about support / how long they've been running / any misc issues? Thanks,

Sean