Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 11th Mar 2005 01:32 UTC
Today we feature a mini-interview with Chris Schlaeger of SuSE and Novell. Chris answers some questions about SuSE 9.3.
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Just a tip: Don't change a running Suse/Linux system if it's running well for you. Distribution upgrades always bear the risk of breaking compatibility somewhere, be it with Debian, Suse or RedHat. I use a 64bit 9.1 on an Opteron cluster an apart from some minor problems with the autoinstaller and old packets, it's running fine, so we're not planning on doing an upgrade unless there'll be a good reason for it.
If you're using an enterprise application, better focus on getting the system and the application up running reliably and well once and don't change the system afterwards unless you need to install security updates.
For example, our LDAP server went down after a software update because yast somehow decided to delete a schema file included by the LDAP server config without modifying the config file itself, which made the cluster inoperable for normal users.
Right, problems like the one mentioned above don't happen often, but sometimes...