Hi,
I just bought a new Opteron box. I am installing and testing different OS on it. Available 64bits OS are SuSE, Fedora, Mandrake and Gentoo.
The best result I have so far are with Gentoo. It takes some hours to install it, but it is worth the time (5-6 for a complete distribution - base + KDE + Mozilla + Gimp - for me on a mono processor). For a bi-pro server with just Apache, PHP and MySQL, it would take much less.
I use mainly Debian on my other machines. But now Debian is in the alpha stage of AMD64.
Just my 2 bits. Yann
Le Friday 16 April 2004 20:09, Brion Vibber a écrit :
The OS is basically a commodity, to the extent that it works and is reliable. Our main services (apache, PHP, MySQL) are mostly installed from source or distro-independent binary tarballs, so beyond basic system configuration it shouldn't much make a difference. The other machines have generally been Red Hat, and it's good to stay consistent on the Apache farm. The database server is different though, so it can be different.
Is there any compelling reason to use a non-rpm distribution, either? What does the package format have to do with anything?
As far as SuSE (which has had amd64 releases in the market for a while), SuSE Professional 9.0 for amd64 is a mere US$119.95, we don't need the expensive support contract.
I've gotten the impression that Debian isn't really mature on amd64; there's no stable release. Has anyone used it *on amd64*? Would you recommend it for a production server?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)