[olug] replacing Windows Server 2003 with Linux distro

[Curtis LaMasters]

For the matter of just a file server, FreeNAS would be
an excellent solution.  There's also a SBS on Linux type solution called
eBox.  I haven't had much time on the latter but FreeNAS rocks.

Curtis LaMasters
http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
http://www.builtnetworks.com


On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:06 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> +1 for CentOS, which is Red Hat minus the branding to make it free as in
> beer. If you want commercial support, then go Red Hat or SUSE. SUSE in
> particular is very easy to manage with Yast, and they have good
> interoperability tools to work in an existing Windows environment. If you
> want a free version of SUSE, there is openSUSE, which just had a major
> release last week.
>
> I don't want to start another flame war because Ubuntu is massively
> popular,
> but they do seem to constantly ship broken packages. People often say it is
> fine in the enterprise because they have a LTS (Long Term Support) release.
> But those are the same buggy packages, just with longer support. Ubuntu is
> fine for your desktop, but I wouldn't put it on a production box in an
> enterprise envrionment.
>
> If file serving is your main concern, you may also want to consider Open
> Solaris or a varient like Nexenta. It uses the Solaris kernel so you get
> the
> ZFS file system. In addition to hardware and software RAID, it supports
> "pools" which can be dynamically adjusted. It also supports
> snapshots/revisions of files, is very fast, etc.
> -- T. J.
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Curtis LaMasters <
> curtislamasters at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > But we are talking about a basic file server for a small business. And I
> > have extended a fair amount of volumes with great success on Windows.
>  I'm
> > not being a fanboy here but it's there is no compelling reason to jump
> > ship,
> > then why?
> >
> > To the original poster; I prefer Ubuntu or Centos.  I have both running
> on
> > 2800 series Dell's.
> >
> > Curtis LaMasters
> > http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> > http://www.builtnetworks.com
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Hurley Rod <RHurley at tenaska.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Other than NTFS (on server 2003) won't let you extend a volume without
> > > corruption?  Or the amazing intermittent functionality of Microsoft's
> > MPIO?
> > >  Or perhaps just the $250 per incident (call India, get transferred to
> > > Bangladesh, then to a page turner, then finally {after sending every
> > > possible dump log known to man} getting to work with a developer?
> > >
> > > I'm just saying...and this was just this week.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > > Curtis LaMasters
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:33 AM
> > > To: dstaehr at neb.rr.com; Omaha Linux User Group
> > > Subject: Re: [olug] replacing Windows Server 2003 with Linux distro
> > >
> > > I know this is a Linux users group but what's the need to get rid of
> > Server
> > > 2003?
> > >
> > > Curtis LaMasters
> > > http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> > > http://www.builtnetworks.com
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Dan Staehr <dstaehr at neb.rr.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > What Linux distro would work well as a replacement of Windows on a
> Dell
> > > > PowerEdge 2800  server?
> > > >
> > > > This is currently being used as a mail and file server for a small
> > > > business.
> > > >
> > > > Dan Staehr
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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