I’ve been running Linux as my server for several years. RedHat 8 and then 9. I even run Samba as a domain controller. I have anti-virus/anti-spam cranked up email server, network PDF printing, centralized faxing, web hosting, and tons of other features up and running wonderfully, all free. Just takes a little knowledge.
But my new server comes in tomorrow. Nice new fast one, dual SATA drives, etc… And I need to decide what OS to install. And I was considering going with Windows 2003 server. Redhat has been annoying me lately. Mostly UTF8 issues, another few things that just never thrilled me too much.
What I would need to do is install Windows 2003 server and Exchange server 2003. A copy of antivirus for both the mail gateway and the OS. Antispam will be an issue, its just not easy on Exchange without 3rd party software. The built in backup software is good enough I guess, but no network faxing that works well, without paying for Small Business Server.

But then I downloaded the current release of SuSE Linux from bittorrent. I had to set it up at work for a project I’m working on. And whoa… I’m sold. I have an old version of SuSE 7.1 from years ago that I bought, and it has changed a lot since then! Slick install, nice update feature, all the right packages included. And its still supported unlike Redhat 9. And the Groupware server looks incredible. Take a look at those screenshots. Looks almost like Lotus Domino iNotes, which was the best thing about Notes.
So when the new box comes in, on goes SuSE. It’ll take me a few hours to migrate everything over, and then we’ll see how everything runs. I’ll have an update here when I’m done… Don’t worry, the public websites are hosted at a third party provider…

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