[CLUE-Tech] Red Hat Ending Support

[Tim Harris]

Mike Staver wrote:

> With Red Hat Ending Support for some of their previous versions, and 
> soon to be 9:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/archives/
>
> I would like to find a new distro for my work servers ASAP.  I'm 
> looking at Suse:
>
> http://store.suse.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=619415&PN=1&SP=10023&xid=40017&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0 
>
>
> In order for my to justify to my boss that $449 is worth it for a web 
> server OS, I need to try running this OS, or atleast the desktop 
> version so I can see if I am capable of configuring Suse to fit our 
> company's needs, and most importantly, install ColdFusion MX 6.1 on 
> it.  I know Macromedia claims it works, but I'll need to verify this 
> for myself before I committ to it:
>
> http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/systemreqs/
>
> Does anyone have an iso of the desktop version of 8 or 9 they could 
> throw up?  I have a boxed set of 7.1 here at work we bought a few 
> years ago, and I like the desktop functionality it had with KDE and 
> all, I just don't know how much 8 or 9 has changed since then.  I also 
> don't know if there will be a server version of 9 coming out that I 
> should wait for...

If you have a broadband connection to the internet all you need to do is 
download the Suse boot disk from their ftp site. The readme file will 
explain what to do but basically you boot up and go through a mini 
setup. It will ask you to install the NIC driver then it will connect to 
an ftp site and start downloading all the files necessary for a full 
install and go through the same install process that you would if you 
were using the CD. I'm using Comcast and it took me about an hour and a 
half to install and configure everything. It was very slick.

-- 
Tim Harris
tdharris at usa.com