I agree with you completely. I'm looking to switch away from Ubuntu for both my personal and work servers. Do you recommend openSUSE for servers as well?
Too soon to say I recommend it, as I started using it last week, but I like it so far. Fast, stable, and bleeding-edge, three words I did not think could be used together.
If you are using Tumbleweed — which I am —, it is like using a more stable, friendly, and tested version of Arch Linux. Leap is similar to an LTS version of Ubuntu, with slightly newer packages sometimes.
I will probably go with Tumbleweed for my servers as well. While that is not recommended by most people, I run so many tests before updating production servers, that this should be okay — plus, I update servers in batches, with my servers coming before customer servers, so I should be able to catch problems there. Still need testing before this becomes reality, though, might stay with Leap for servers in the end.
One thing I liked a lot is openSUSE MicroOS, which is so much easier to install on bare-metal than the Ubuntu equivalent, Ubuntu Core — perfect for bastion servers, VPNs, or LXD host servers, since the root file system is read-only.
I did replace BTFRS with XFS, though, as for my use case, BTFRS provided no benefit, and performance took a big hit. You will need to run your benchmarks to see if it fits your use case, but the options are EXT4, XFS, or BTFRS (the default).
Overall, I am enjoying the experience, and the community is quite nice as well. Heck, I am even giving KDE a try, and giving i3wm a break.
jamesponddotco|5 years ago
If you are using Tumbleweed — which I am —, it is like using a more stable, friendly, and tested version of Arch Linux. Leap is similar to an LTS version of Ubuntu, with slightly newer packages sometimes.
I will probably go with Tumbleweed for my servers as well. While that is not recommended by most people, I run so many tests before updating production servers, that this should be okay — plus, I update servers in batches, with my servers coming before customer servers, so I should be able to catch problems there. Still need testing before this becomes reality, though, might stay with Leap for servers in the end.
One thing I liked a lot is openSUSE MicroOS, which is so much easier to install on bare-metal than the Ubuntu equivalent, Ubuntu Core — perfect for bastion servers, VPNs, or LXD host servers, since the root file system is read-only.
I did replace BTFRS with XFS, though, as for my use case, BTFRS provided no benefit, and performance took a big hit. You will need to run your benchmarks to see if it fits your use case, but the options are EXT4, XFS, or BTFRS (the default).
Overall, I am enjoying the experience, and the community is quite nice as well. Heck, I am even giving KDE a try, and giving i3wm a break.
andreicek|5 years ago