Joe Sloan wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Joe Sloan
wrote: Some here will say that they've gotten things to work on 64 bit, but I would only recommend the 64 bit version on big servers.
Joe
You over state this Joe. There _MAY_ still be a few oddball things that are not available in x86_64, but in those cases the 32bit packages work just fine.
I'm sure things are getting better in 64-bit land, I'm just cautious.
I've run nothing but X86_64for the last two years and it all works. Especially in a server. It all works perfectly.
I just reinstalled SLES 10 32 bit on a server which I had previously set up for a customer with SLES 10 64 bit, and I did it on my own dime, because it was my own ignorance that caused me to install it as 64-bit initially.
One key application from a 3rd party simply would not work, while it worked just fine on my desktop which was 32 bit. After too much time wasted, I bit the bullet and cut my losses, backing up the server on a usb drive and installing SLES 10 32 bit. Immediately, everything worked.
On my own desktop I had open suse 64 bit installed, but there were some oddities with multimedia: some audio files which played fine on my 32 bit system, sounded like alvin and the chipmunks on my 64 bit system. Some video clips which played fine on the 32 bit system, were distorted on the 64 bit system.
Sounds like an appropriate use of a small virtual machine installation to run those few flaky apps. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org