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I deployed NFS/LDAP/KRB5 OpenSuSE at work with autoyast. Autoyast is the only automated installer thing that ever worked mostly as intended. Debian preseed is j
by ysleepy 9y ago
I deployed NFS/LDAP/KRB5 OpenSuSE at work with autoyast. Autoyast is the only automated installer thing that ever worked mostly as intended. Debian preseed is just horrible. Never tried kickstart though.
The SuSE stuff is hairy and there are bugs, but they put the elbow grease into it and it shows.
- mbreese 9y agoIf you can do your post-install configuration at the command-line (as a script), kickstart works well. I've done that in a few places. The PXE support for kickstart scripts is nice too.
- angry_octet 9y agoSLES was great until their parent company (Novell) went bankrupt, so much smoother than RH. Great driver support and high end system integration (HA, big NFS). But there were always packaging difficulties because there was a huge delay between releases. Just never had enough engineers to keep up with other systems.
- darksoulvii 9y agoNovell isn't their parent company anymore. Hasn't been since 2006 when Novell was bought by Attachmate. Attachmate then got bought by Microfocus which absorbed Attachmate, NetIQ, and Novell. SUSE survived and is an independent business unit. SLES 12 is solid.
- angry_octet 9y agoAttachmate staved them of capital. Many of the best engineers left, e.g. for Red Hat. SLES has improved a little of late, but still far behind.