Although this section is not related to support but my question is actually about support. However I didn’t a place better than here!
I am looking for a good long stable Linux distribution for servers. Currently we have ubuntu 12.04 with users that need wide services. Here are the main list of request.
On 2013-02-14 21:26, mahmoodn wrote:
> Specifically, I am looking for a distribution which is released
> recently (say 2012) and has a support for libraries with 5 years old
> (2007).
Use the commercial version, it has about 5 years support.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Most community distributions cannot offer this level of support because so much of the work is done by volunteers who often have enough on their hands to keep up with the current releases without having to bother about older releases.
As Carlos says, you will be better off with an enterprise release but you will almost certainly have to be prepared to get your hands dirty supporting so many different versions.
each openSUSE version is only supported for 18 months, so you would
find yourself upgrading about ever year! well, there is
<Evergreenhttp://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen> which will make
openSUSE 11.4 available for 3 years and 4 months if you had loaded
it on the first day it was released…personally i never load a new
version in the first three or four months…(i loaded 11.4 about 10
months after release)…
if you go to a commercial release you get away from all of that
shakey starts and short lives…
commercial alternatives would be Red Hat, CentOS, BSD, AIX, Solaris,
etc etc etc
of course, openSUSE is at least as good as Ubuntu and Fedora…and
better than MS… there are lots of openSUSE servers in lots of
server farms…just have to be ready to move to the next version.
While openSUSE has what you look for, I second the points of view which
were mentioned before about the problem that the lifetime of a release
is very short for a server.
Have you seen the answers you got on the Scientific Linux mailing list
about the kernel version.
Honestly if I were you I would go for SL for your servers or if he money
is no problem with SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.10.0 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.10.0 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.2 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
Have you seen the answers you got on the Scientific Linux mailing list
about the kernel version.
Honestly if I were you I would go for SL for your servers or if he money
is no problem with SUSE Linux Enterprise.
Up to now, I narrowed my distribution to Suse and Scientific Linux.
There is a document from AMD which describes linux versions compatible with new cpus.
If your looking for something more inexpensive ie Free Scientific Linux or centos my be worth taking a look at both are based off of Red hat enterprise Linux.