Re: [suse-amd64] Newbie question

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

Kirk Lowery writes:

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The good news: we just got two new NEWISYS 2100 servers (dual Opterons)!

The bad news: all my experience is with Debian and they came pre-installed with SuSE Enterprise Server 8.0. And there's no Debian for

I wouldn't consider that bad news ;-) but I'm biased.

No offense intended. Debian vs. rpm-based distros is way off-topic here. The bad news is my lack of experience with SuSE. But, then, I've been on a steep learning curve for twenty years with technology, so what's new?

imap comes with it. But I'm not sure whether it's the Cyrus one.

No, cyrus doesn't (but does come on the Professional CD). And what I'm trying to do is migrate my present mail and web services to the new machine. The easiest way of doing it is to stay with the same software, because all my hard-earned configurations stay the same: fetchmail+exim+spamassassin+cyrus, apache+zope(+python)+postgresql...well, you know the drill. Some of this I've found on the x86_64 Professional disks. But zope, for example, does not, and I'll be pestering this list with questions about the best way to compile 64-bit stuff and other questions, I'm sure.

There're not many options right now.

That's also the advantage of the Opteron, no? Being able to run both 32- and 64-bit executables. Well, I knew buying the latest hardware meant I would be "rolling my own" software a lot.... :-) Thanks for the links and info. Kirk -- Theorie ist, wenn man alles weiss und nichts klappt. Praxis ist, wenn alles klappt und keiner weiss warum. Bei uns sind Theorie und Praxis vereint: nichts klappt und keiner weiss warum!