Hello Thanks Theo, Richard and Anders. El Mar 14 Dic 2004 03:06, Anders Johansson escribió:
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 01:22, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Afaik the Itanium is i386 compatible, although with a decrement in speed, so the i686 packages should run without a problem.
Sort of. The hardware isn't compatible the way AMDs machines are or the new Xeons, but there is a software compatibility layer that lets you run x86 apps. And yes, it's slow, which is probably why AMD is eating their lunch now. Why do you think TheReg calls it Itanic :)
Is x86-64 only for AMD Opteron or it's for Intel Xeon too? Would these pagackes work properly on SLES9 for Itanium? As things are going, and following Anders suggestions, i would better press on changing the Itanium server and looking forward an Opteron server (Proliant DL585) which supports SLES9 for AMD64, as i've seen at suse's ftp server there are binary rpms for desktop apps like OpenOffice. Any advice is wellcomed!!
I never thought it would be so difficult to get an answer from SuSE/Novell, nobody seems to care about supporting potential buyers / users .... its very dissapointing!!!!!!!!!
That's what you get when a large company takes over. It's probably not that they don't care, it's just too many damn pencil pushers before your problem arrives on the right desk.
It helps if you ask in the right place too. This list isn't an official support forum. If Novell/SuSE people see questions here it'll be almost pure accident
I've already emailed and talked to 5 Novell personnel, all of them redirect me to each other, i thought i'll get more answers here at the list, and i wasn't wrong, you have helped me more thant Novell. Thanks!!! I will try with some SuSE personnel i've seen in the list, hope to get the clear picture. Best regards Oxiel