Re: [Hampshire] Which to install on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 x8…

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Author: Brian Chivers
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To: Tony Whitmore, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Which to install on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 x86_64 oria64
Tony Whitmore wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:37:11PM +0100, Vic wrote:
>>> What's the difference & which would you go for ??
>> I spent a year or so running RHEL on an AMD64. Granted, I was running it
>> as a desktop, which makes life a little harder, but quite frankly, I
>> wouldn't do it again in a hurry.
>
> I've run 64-bit Linux at work at first, and now at home for three years or so.
> These days I don't come across many problems - there were lots at first. Most
> of the problems are with propriatory software that hasn't been ported to
> 64-bit natively. Flash, for example. But I'm happy to live without that. :)
>
> Tony
>


As I got a few servers to do I think I'll set one up as a test and see how I get on. As I said
before these servers are going to be pretty standard stuff so hopefully there wont be a too many
problems (oh I know that this line is going to come back to bite me :-) )

When I've got one working I'm going to take a look at Mondo Rescue
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/mondorescue/?branch_id=6608&release_id=252007) and use this to clone
the machines as well as having a backup / rescue solution.

Brian

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