openSUSE:Ideas for server installation
openSUSE is a very popular on the desktop but that doesn't mean that it can't be used on the server. In fact, it comes with everything you need to set up a (web, mail, etc) server.
openSUSE 11.2 may have a server-flavoured CD besides the DVD, KDE Live CD, GNOME Live CD and netinstall CD.
For more info, see #305664: Server CD
Ideas
Having several patterns like:
- LAMP
- Mail server
- DNS
- Firewall
- Proxy
- File server (FTP, FTPS, NFS, Samba)
- Backup server
- Print server
- Router
- Multimedia center/streaming
- Directory service (OpenLDAP, Active Directory)
- Build Service (See Build_Service/Build_Service_Installation_Tutorial)
- Mirroring (MirrorBrain, rsync)
Ideally we would have a YaST module per pattern and the YaST Web modules as well.
Another thing: having a server-targeted kernel would be perfect.
Don't be afraid and add your ideas here! :-)
openFATE Feature Requests
#305624: Allow downloading all packages before installing
#306605: openSUSE Server Edition
#306638: Yast-mail + Dovecot
Useful Articles
LAMP - Set up your own Linux Apache MySQL PHP Server
Build Service
To see a list of all Build Service projects, visit Public Projects - Build Service
Missing / required software
- Puppet - integrated, needs testing
- Spacewalk - missing
- SystemImager - missing