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Try using rsync to back up several gigabytes and thousands of files from remote locations to your OS X server. Admittedly, this was OS X, not OS X server, but I'd be surprised if the problem only existed in one and not the other.

I found the OS X rsync would run out of file handles and sometimes cause the OS itself to become unstable enough that a reboot was required. Killing the process would not free up the resources.

OS X is a great desktop OS. I use it every day. But I sure as heck won't use it for a server, especially one I need to have in a remote location. Something Linux has excelled at for over 13 years, by my own first-hand experience.

I've found SuSE 9.3 to be very nice to use and have experienced only one problem. Occasionally a File dialog will hang. Very, very annoying.

Other than that, SuSE 9.3 has been rock solid, and a wonderful platform for a workstation, and in many cases a server. Though, I tend to use Trustix for servers.

I've had the opposite with SLP 9.3 performing better than the previous release while offering more than any other Linux distribution or even Windows for that matter. As for commenting about Windows when I was a former Windows user I had several issues that required a lot of down time (ie: viruses/trojan/worms, spyware, etc). It was frustrating getting MS cryptic errors displayed that would require an I.T. Systems Admin to understand or paying MS a high amount of money to troubleshoot the issue. I also like the fact with SLP I didn't need third party install discs to install drivers for things such as the motherboard which I did require with Windows XP Professional. Also not having to restart the system after installing software is nice on SLP which current Windows still requires in most cases.

I too personally had many problems with SUSE 9.3. bttv driver wouldn't work. Nvidia driver install was a pain compared to other distros (like Ubuntu). Too much KDE stuff integrated into Gnome (for instance, using kdesu instead of gksu). I remember Novell talking sometime ago about making an integrated Gnome/Kde desktop. But simply using KDE utilities so they stick out and look funny on the Gnome desktop when Gnome has perfectly ample compatable utilities isn't making an integrated desktop.

I personally use CentOS 4.1, so it is a bit behind SuSE 9.3 but I think I can live without all the new features in exchange for rock-hard stability.

"I tried Suse 9.3, but it was too unstable."

I can believe it. But instead of spending a fortune on W2K3, you could use CentOS 4, rock solid, as another user said.

i cant believe it and of course he could try centOS as well as a bazzillion other distros... yada yada yada

apt4rpm??

SUSE 9.3 isn't really a server OS. Looking at SLES9 and seeing if it had flash would make more sense.

YaST doesn't give you many choices about what to install. .. In Fedora and Mandrake that's different - you can select which packages to install.

I use Suse 9.3 pro on a server. Alot of times i just ssh instead of turing on the monitor.
Using yast on the console allows me to search and install any package i want. I'm sure you can do that with the gui version as well.

Yes, but not during the installation...

During the install, as well as post-install, you can select or de-select any package you wish. I am not sure what you are talking about?

YaST doesn't give you many choices about what to install. .. In Fedora and Mandrake that's different - you can select which packages to install

Ummm, 3 clicks and it does. Or use the Search utility in YaST.

> YaST doesn't give you many choices about what
> o install. .. In Fedora and Mandrake that's
> different - you can select which packages to
> install.

Why do you say that? It's not true. YaST lets you do two things:

- accepting a preselected set of packages like "KDE", "GNOME", "Office", "Development", "Minimal graphical system", "Minimal system without X" etc.

- selecting and deselecting every single package that you might want or that you don't want.

It is simply not the truth that YaST doesn't let you select individual packages. If you didn't find the option, then you didn't look.

> I can't use SuSE while they include
> non-free software like KDE and Qt

Troll alert!

1. You can choose to not install KDE and Qt

2. KDE and Qt are FREE:

http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php

As for the nvidia install.. I guess using yast to download it was too hard? It does it on the install as well with yast.. And if you want to update run tiny-nvidia-installer. ooooh... pretty hard.

Well, I would call the nvidia script from YOU borking X Windows so I had to go to www.nvidia.com with links, download the driver, use the console version of yast to install gcc, and then install the driver, then go and fix all of the places sax2 fucked up my xorg.conf file a little bit more difficult than most distros, wouldn't you? It has happened on both SUSE 9.2 and 9.3 with me with a GeForce FX 5200 (a card fully supported by Nvidia's Linux Drivers). Stick your grandma in-front of a flashing terminal with no gui and tell her:

"Oh, the Nvidia driver's fucked. Go ahead and edit a cryptic text file to fix it, and do this using a cryptic text editor program"

Anyway use what you want. But substituting CentOS for SUSE? why not just use fedora?

Do you have to question every one else about what they do? And do you have to assume you know everything MR. AC? Just as you were wrong about the Nvidia drivers, you were wrong about this. I was trying to substitute SUSE for CentOS, not the other way around. And SUSE wasn't nearly as stable as CentOS is. I was looking for newer features, but quickly ran back to CentOS.

Oh, and about hearing Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that...thats funny. I just took Ubuntu off of my harddrive a few days ago in frustration because it pissed me off so much. I just pointed out that installing the Nvidia drivers wasn't a pain on Ubuntu, and it sure as hell was on SUSE.

"Well, I would call the nvidia script from YOU borking X Windows so I had to go to www.nvidia.com with links, download the driver, use the console version of yast to install gcc, and then install the driver, then go and fix all of the places sax2 f***** up my xorg.conf file a little bit more difficult than most distros, wouldn't you? It has happened on both SUSE 9.2 and 9.3 with me with a GeForce FX 5200 (a card fully supported by Nvidia's Linux Drivers)."

I have the very same video card, and the NVidia drivers included with SUSE from version 9.1 to 9.3 installed flawlessly and worked without any modifications.

Pico is included as a console text editor with SUSE, and it's very simple to learn.

Also try being a less emotional in your responses, it looks to me like you're either very defencive or angry.

"It is a shame that the Linux community views p*ss*ng time down the drain as a "feature"."

It's far better than spending time trolling like you are doing.

Installing software in Windows:
- Open FireFox
- Find web site to get program from
- Locate the download link
- Download program installer or zip file
- If zip file, extract and hope it contains an installer.
- If the zip file didn't include an installer, place the files where they need to go manually and create your own shortcuts.
- If there is an installer, run that, go throught several prompts, and wait for the package to be installed. Promps include but are not limited to:
... o Licence agreement
... o What components you want installed
... o Where you want things installed
... o Whether or not you want shortcuts created
... o What you want to run when the installer exits.
- Remove the installer.
- Total time lost: a lot + steps must be repeated in their entirety for each individual package

Installing software in Linux (graphical):
- Open the graphical package manager.
- Enter root password if required.
- Select the packages you want, use the search feature to help if you want.
- Click the next or install button
- The packages you requested are then installed without needing any further user interaction.
- When the installation is finished, dismiss your graphical package manager and run the software you want.
- Total time lost: Very little

Installing software in Linux (console):
- Open a root console
- Enter root password
- Run package manager with the name of the packages you want installed as arguments, searching can be done easily.
... o With apt-get, use apt-cache search $name
... o with urpmi, use urpmq $name
- Packages get installed without need for user interaction.
- Installer exits, close the root terminal and you're done.
- Time lost: Even less.

If you feel you absolutely must troll, why don't you go over to Slashdot instead where your post would be modded down far faster than here. It's a sad fact that here people don't have enough votes to keep on top of the trolling problem, otherwise you would already be well on your way to -5 by now.

I think it's good to have guides for beginners, just why should they install servers at all?

That's what I was thinking. Don't we have enough email problems as it is without people that don't understand DNS, SMTP, etc trying to run mail servers? I know people need to start somewhere. Maybe I'm old school to think it should be with a couple good books on the basics.

How long did it take to install Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Contribute and Fireworks on SuSE?

"How long did it take to install Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Contribute and Fireworks on SuSE? "

Linux has equivalent applications to a lot of what you have in Windows, including Photoshop. But if you really need those exact applications you can use CrossOver Office: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/ or use Windows in an emulator like Win4lin, VMWare, or if you're really patient, qemu.