You'll be getting the latest security patches, whether you run SLES8 or SLES9, regardless of 31-bit or 64-bit.
Until more applications and middleware start to actually exploit 64-bit mode, I would stay with a default of 31-bit systems. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: zLinux 31 to 64 bit Some products "require" 64bit (e.g. Informix as per our DB group). And if many products are not supported in 64bit, are we doomed to maintaining two flavors (plus SLES8, SLES9) of z/linux? Which should be the default -- 31bit, unless a particular product requires 64bit, perhaps? More and more, our security group demands that we apply the latest security patches, so more than machine performance, I more concerned about human labor requirement issues. Ismael Ifurung ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
