I guess I should qualify my mention of "32bit deprecating". I was referring to Zimbra. They are dropping 32bit builds. The CentOS was for loading Zimbra on, so going forward, you would need to install CentOS 64bit for Zimbra requirements. You are correct in that 32bit CentOS itself is here to stay for a good while longer.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John R. Dennison Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] Help Wanted On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > Joe, > > Since you have vmware in your environment, why not setup an additional > "whitebox" test vmware host with the free version on desktop grade hardware? > From there you could personally experiment and learn more about vmware > without risking anything that is in production. You can google for > whitebox setups and see if you might have hardware handy that will run > it. it will usually run OK on any Intel-brand motherboard with quad+ > core cpus. I know It will run on anything with hardware virt support. > You can load CentOS 6 Linux Minimal 64bit (avoid the 32bit, it is > deprecating) - under vmware to boot if you get that up and running: 32bit is, and will remain, fully supported. There also will be 32bit C7 releases, contrary to the Red Hat upstream. There are many reasons to continue to run 32bit instances, least of which is overheard. I would advise staying away from the minimal; use a netinstall image. > Install CentOS and take default filesystem layout (and most other defaults). > Minimal version is barebones and loads a specific set of packages. It misses so much it's not even funny (openssh-clients, man, network doesn't come up by default in many cases, etc). John -- We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd President of the United States -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
