Kirk Lowery
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.
AMD64 (yet).
So I have some questions that I'm sure are FAQs. Point me in the right direction and I'll RTFM.
What is the difference between Enterprise Server and SuSE Professional?
Check http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/server/sles/amd64.html. Basically: - Enterprise Server is a maintained product with a lifetime of 5 years. You can buy maintenance for it and SuSE helps with problems, makes security updates and tests them etc. - Hardware, e.g. Newisys Server and Software, e.g. Oracle, gets certified to run on the Enterprise Server. If you're - Professional is not maintained. We just do security patches for 2 years but that's all.
I know there are the United Linux add-on packages. But there are a lot of packages I need that aren't on the installation disks. I'd prefer 64-bit compiled applications, naturally. For example, Cyrus (imap) and
Nearly everything is 64-bit (except OpenOffice and acroread).
dependences don't come on the installation disks. So...do I just download the Professional iso's for the AMD64?
imap comes with it. But I'm not sure whether it's the Cyrus one.
In general, where does one go for binary 64-bit rpms? Or is it better
There're not many options right now.
just to compile from the source?
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