I share the same feelings as Dennis. Currently we're running one production server with Rh 7.3 (an upgrade from 7.2 because we needed large file support, without erasing existing data, which took us several days to get the server back online) It probably is virtual impossible to switch between distro's (Rh -> Debian) without having to install everything from scratch ... Simple question(s): Backing up Data.fs on RH and copying to another distro, does that break anything? And if one switches from ext3 to Reiser?
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Message: 31 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:13:07 +0100 From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> Subject: Re: [Zope] Linux distributions for Zope Servers To: Dennis Allison <allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU> Cc: zope@zope.org Message-ID: <16297.22995.965842.962014@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Dennis Allison wrote at 2003-11-3 22:04 -0800:
... Linux distributions ... There are a number of candidate--Suse, Mandrake, Debian, etc.
Anyone care to document their experiences, good and bad?
I used SuSE Linux from version 4 to version 8.1.
Twice, upgrading has been a nightmare.
The worst has been version 8.1:
* Hangs all around: during installation, after boot, in rescue system all caused by a missing USB keyboard driver module (I have an USB keyboard).
* "init.d/boot" not installed -- consequence: file system not remounted read/write, thousands of errors on startup
* all browsers without working Java support
* severe kernel problems; "APIC" disabled to work around this problems -- broke commercial product (VMWare)
* unhelpful installation help desk
I decided to switch to Debian the next time I make a Linux upgrade.
-- Dieter