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Out of curiosity, are there any readers of this site that rune SUSE in prod? My understanding is it is more of a force in the EU, I've known some desktop users

by kev009 8y ago

Out of curiosity, are there any readers of this site that rune SUSE in prod? My understanding is it is more of a force in the EU, I've known some desktop users of it (good KDE integration), but I've never encountered it in my work or job interviews etc in the US. edit: ah there are a few anecdotes nested in this comments already.

LogicX 8y ago
Just had a convo yesterday with someone at BigCo who standardizes on it... I was surprised to hear it too.
djsumdog 8y ago
I run openSUSE for my mail server, but that's in the process of being migrated to OpenBSD. When I worked at the University of Cincinnati in 2012, we had a lot of stuff running on SLES, mostly because we were running Novel's Identity Management system. That was a while back though and I'm not sure if they're still down that route since Novell turned into Micro Focus and, I guess now, EQT.
- pknopf 8y ago
  Side question, for your mail server, do you ever find that your outbound messages get sent to spam?
  - djsumdog 8y ago
    Dear god yes! I wrote a whole post on that bullshit: https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/ https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made...
  - kev009 8y ago
    Setting up a mail server is somewhat intricate as admins added hurdles to cut spam. This was on HN a while back and is good stuff https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide SPF, DKIM, DMARC all need to be set up. Check to see if the IP is any RBLs. Time also helps as the major MXers "learn" you are a real mail server.
takeda 8y ago
I know Intel use/used it as their distribution of choice.
amorousf00p 8y ago
I've run it. Still run it for NFS4 cots NAS for HPC clusters and web services. Will be moving back to it next year for HPC nodes...or maybe FreeBSD depending on this acquisition. fedora was way ahead in performance for years. That was the only reason to go RH-alike but Fedora is _so_ flaky and systemd upstream + attendant cruft like firewalld and the default selinux policies are nightmares. Every Fedora distribution is another set of bugs and workarounds that push you towards RH enterprise..as if you hadn't been doing this for 20 years and needed RH to show you the way. Fedora is nice if you are doing hypervsiors with QEMU/KVM. Very close to prod out the box.

by kev009 8y ago

LogicX 8y ago

Just had a convo yesterday with someone at BigCo who standardizes on it... I was surprised to hear it too.

djsumdog 8y ago

I run openSUSE for my mail server, but that's in the process of being migrated to OpenBSD. When I worked at the University of Cincinnati in 2012, we had a lot of stuff running on SLES, mostly because we were running Novel's Identity Management system. That was a while back though and I'm not sure if they're still down that route since Novell turned into Micro Focus and, I guess now, EQT.

pknopf 8y ago
Side question, for your mail server, do you ever find that your outbound messages get sent to spam?
- djsumdog 8y ago
  Dear god yes! I wrote a whole post on that bullshit: https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/ https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made...
- kev009 8y ago
  Setting up a mail server is somewhat intricate as admins added hurdles to cut spam. This was on HN a while back and is good stuff https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide SPF, DKIM, DMARC all need to be set up. Check to see if the IP is any RBLs. Time also helps as the major MXers "learn" you are a real mail server.

takeda 8y ago

I know Intel use/used it as their distribution of choice.

amorousf00p 8y ago

I've run it. Still run it for NFS4 cots NAS for HPC clusters and web services. Will be moving back to it next year for HPC nodes...or maybe FreeBSD depending on this acquisition. fedora was way ahead in performance for years. That was the only reason to go RH-alike but Fedora is _so_ flaky and systemd upstream + attendant cruft like firewalld and the default selinux policies are nightmares. Every Fedora distribution is another set of bugs and workarounds that push you towards RH enterprise..as if you hadn't been doing this for 20 years and needed RH to show you the way. Fedora is nice if you are doing hypervsiors with QEMU/KVM. Very close to prod out the box.