OpenSUSE or SLES?

[brutus]

Hi everyone,

I’m currently evaluating Scalix for my old school and don’t know whether to use SLES or OpenSUSE.

On the download page, I read that OpenSUSE and Fedora are not recommended because of the frequency of upgrades. How is this meant? Are there too much or too few upgrades? And do you mean the frequency of major upgrades (for example SLES 9 -> 10) and/or minor upgrades/updates?

Is Scalix often installed on OpenSUSE in production environments?

Kind Regards,
Andreas

[mhoroschun]

Use SLES. Period.

We chose OpenSUSE originally and we regretted that decision.

Each new minor version of Scalix only supports the "current" version of OpenSUSE. For example:

We originally installed Scalix 11.0 on OpenSUSE 10.1 (which was the only supported version). Now we want to upgrade to Scalix 11.3. However, Scalix 11.3 ONLY supports OpenSUSE 10.2.

Since there is no official way to upgrade OpenSUSE 10.1 to OpenSUSE 10.2, you basically have no choice but to reinstall the OS.

In hindsight the documentation is clear. If you're using Scalix for production, you want to be using SLES, RHEL or Xandros.