Migrate from SLES8 to SLES9 if you: - need the scalability enhancements in 2.6 that SUSE didn't back port to 2.4 - need any new features of the newer packages - are getting near the end of life of SLES8 (some time off, yet) - lots of other reasons, I'm sure
Using 64-bit operating systems when you don't need them does incur some additional overhead for no benefit, and does require the 31-bit libraries to support your 31-bit applications and middleware. I wouldn't do it if I had a choice. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: zLinux 31 to 64 bit Well, I've read the manual, and basically, the only question that I asked that it answered was that to use 64 bit Sles9, you have to do a new install. But considering the lack of response from others, it kind of leads me to believe that anyone that is going to Sles9 and has earlier releases of Suse, are not migrating their applications to the next release. No matter what, I'll convert the Sles7 images to Sles9. The question is why or why not would someone convert Sles8 images to Sles9 and whether to convert Sles9 31 bit to Sles9 64 bit. So, is it a given that everyone should do the conversion? Or that you shouldn't do the conversion? That is given, that is it not a problem from the application side to do the conversion? Tom Duerbusch THD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
