Finally I made the switch from Windows to Linux. I decided to go for openSUSE 10.3, as it has the fastest I/O of all operating systems in the world. This site, http://www.siipi.com is now running on openSUSE 10.3.

The installation was just as easy as installing Ubuntu (which is actually easier than installing Windows), but openSUSE gives you more freedom to make choices. It was literally just like inserting the CD and turning the power on, I didn't need to install any 3rd party drivers or anything else, everything was done by the openSUSE CD.

Of course I needed to convert the harddrives from NTFS to ext3 (I used a new harddisk for the "C:" drive), but that's just normal partitioning, formatting and moving files from one harddisk to another. openSUSE can read and write NTFS drives, but for production use only ext3 drives should be used (much better performance).

I think I will use this combo also on our IBM System p570 servers, then we have a unified environment between Intel and PowerPC servers. Oh wait, I can't! There's no Domino for Linux on PowerPC, ok AIX is actually better since it has JFS2.