James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On 25/04/07, Brian Chivers <brian@???> wrote:
>> I'm about to install Centos onto our new servers but a little unsure
>> which architecture to install ?
>>
>> For Centos 4.4 there is both ia64 & x86_64 images but Centos 5 only
>> has x86_64
>>
>> The servers are dual Xeon 2.8's and are supposed to support EM64T
>> technology.
>>
>> I've already installed Etch onto one of them ready for the new version
>> of Censornet & added the
>> linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64 deb package via apt and it seems to work fine.
>>
>> What's the difference & which would you go for ??
>>
>> Thanks
>> Brian
>>
>
> I have some of these in my office. I have Ubuntu-server installed on them.
> I use the 32bit version because I needed maximum compatibility with
> current software packages and not high performance.
> One useful think I have found, is that in order to run the Dell
> firmware upgrade utilities, e.g. HD firmware upgrade, RAID controller
> upgrade, one needs a Linux program called "lockfile". This is found in
> the procmail package. I guess lockfile is present on all Redhat
> systems by default, but on ubuntu it is not.
>
> It is running very reliably here with Linux on it.
>
Interesting to know thanks,
These box's will be running almost completely on bog standard software, Samba, OpenLDAP, Apache and
not a lot else so hopefully the fact that I'm going to try the 64bit architecture wont cause and
issue :-)
Brian
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