2009/3/17 Eric Sorenson <[email protected]>: > My $.02: The biggest x86_64 problem I ran into on the RH-derived > variants -- and I second your caveat that it's been a little while > since I did this but the fundamentals haven't changed afaik -- was > that i386 and x86_64 builds of the same package are allowed to > overwrite each other's files. So you end up with the really bad > situation where
I agree, this is a pain with Redhat based stuff - you can end up with machines having different files installed depending on which order the packages get installed. We have a thousand+ Linux desktop machines (and about the same number of servers) all running 64-bit - works well enough, and provides massive benefits over 32-bit for our particular workload. We even run the "evil" nvidia drivers on said desktops because we actually want to get some work done. 64-bit flash/java plugins are still a little bit wonky so we run a 32-bit firefox installation. We've been 64-bit for a few years - recently upgraded our standard OS build to FC8, so most of the inhouse stuff has already been ported over. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
