From: Martino Piccinato (martino.piccinato_at_nexus.it)
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 23:33:09 CEST
Message-ID: <42CC4E15.3040005@nexus.it> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:33:09 +0200 From: Martino Piccinato <martino.piccinato@nexus.it> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] online software source media
Anders Johansson wrote:
>On Thursday 07 July 2005 22:18, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
>
>
>>No one commercial Linux (RedHat and SuSe are not exceptions) can offer such
>>service. Not a surprise. (I was surprised few years ago, when realized it -
>>and it's why we use FreeBSD in many places, not a Linux).
>>
>>
>
>You must have a very good internet connection. If you have multiple servers,
>you will gain immensely from setting up a local installation server instead
>of using ones from the internet
>
>
>
I have a single server housed in a server farm (and even if I had more
servers housed there I wouldn't like to use one as an installation
server...). I don't want to go there with my CDs everytime I've to
install the smallest package.
I disagree that you must have a ery good internet connection: obviously
I would do 90% of the install with CDs and DVDs but if you forget a
package or are just in need of new functionality provided by a package
it wasn't installed it would be very good to just grab it from an online
site automatically with YAST.
I think I should just take out the package from the installation CD I
have in the office, upload it to the server and "rpm -i" it, quite
boring and lenghty solution compared to yast...
I'm still quite surprised that a free (as in beer and as in speech)
distribution as debian can provide such a service (I've used it for many
years with great profit and without wasting too much bandwidth) while
SUSE/NOVELL can't provide such a thing to their customers.
Thanks for the kind answers
>Besides, it's not exactly a Linux/FreeBSD difference. There are multiple linux
>distros that work on the BSD distribution principle. Most notably gentoo,
>which uses a system that is very heavily inspired by *BSD. This does not
>necessarily mean to say it's good for commercial use though
>
>But it's a commercial world. If there is a demand, and customers request it
>from their Novell contacts, it could happen
>
>But my guess is that most customers see the benefit in having local setups.
>Bandwidth can be better used for other purposes
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-sles-e-unsubscribe@suse.com
>For additional commands, e-mail: suse-sles-e-help@suse.com
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Jul 06 2005 - 23:33:15 CEST