I am reluctantly considering to install Suse 9.0 on a Tyan Tiger dual
Opteron MB, which I am planning to buy. I do this reluctantly, since I have
been a Slack user since v3.x (for servers only). When a new version of
Slack with full support for the AMD64 architecture and a 2.6 kernel is out,
I will definitely switch back.

So is that anyone out there who can give me the skinny on SUSE for the Slack
user? Anything to look out for? Any quick hints? This will be a server
box, running MySql 4.x, 4gb etc. No GUI, no desktop stuff, just crunching.
My only experience with Suse was I played with Suse 7.x for S/390 on a
Hercules emulator once.

Thanks everyone,

Nuz

PS. I still only use Slack for my other servers, its just this one that I
want/need a dual Opteron machine for.

Menuz2 wrote:
> I am reluctantly considering to install Suse 9.0 on a Tyan Tiger dual
> Opteron MB, which I am planning to buy. I do this reluctantly, since I have
> been a Slack user since v3.x (for servers only). When a new version of
> Slack with full support for the AMD64 architecture and a 2.6 kernel is out,
> I will definitely switch back.
>
> So is that anyone out there who can give me the skinny on SUSE for the Slack
> user? Anything to look out for? Any quick hints? This will be a server
> box, running MySql 4.x, 4gb etc. No GUI, no desktop stuff, just crunching.
> My only experience with Suse was I played with Suse 7.x for S/390 on a
> Hercules emulator once.
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Nuz
>
> PS. I still only use Slack for my other servers, its just this one that I
> want/need a dual Opteron machine for.

Hmm... I would install Slack and then make a 2.6 kernel for this
specific machine. Have you considered such an option?
Regards, jkb

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:27:56 -0500, Menuz2 <menuz2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am reluctantly considering to install Suse 9.0 on a Tyan Tiger dual
> Opteron MB, which I am planning to buy. I do this reluctantly, since I have
> been a Slack user since v3.x (for servers only). When a new version of
> Slack with full support for the AMD64 architecture and a 2.6 kernel is out,
> I will definitely switch back.

It might be an excellent opportunity to work on a Slackware-x86-64 port.
:-)

Slackteron... it a nice ring to it, no?

> So is that anyone out there who can give me the skinny on SUSE for the Slack
> user? Anything to look out for? Any quick hints? This will be a server

You may find you have better luck finding out about SuSE experiences in
an SuSE newsgroup.

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:05:08 +0100, Jacek K. B³aszkowski <rainman@polbox.com> wrote:
> This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156)

Usenet and MIME don't play nicely together.

I'd pick one... PGP/MIME or Usenet.

When we were playing with PGP/MIME here a year or two back... some posts
actually caused kmail to hang for several minutes (admittedly on a
slower laptop computer).

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Menuz2 wrote:

> I am reluctantly considering to install Suse 9.0 on a Tyan Tiger dual
> Opteron MB, which I am planning to buy. I do this reluctantly, since I
> have
> been a Slack user since v3.x (for servers only). When a new version of
> Slack with full support for the AMD64 architecture and a 2.6 kernel is
> out, I will definitely switch back.
>
> So is that anyone out there who can give me the skinny on SUSE for the
> Slack
> user? Anything to look out for? Any quick hints? This will be a server
> box, running MySql 4.x, 4gb etc. No GUI, no desktop stuff, just
> crunching. My only experience with Suse was I played with Suse 7.x for
> S/390 on a Hercules emulator once.
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Nuz
>
> PS. I still only use Slack for my other servers, its just this one that I
> want/need a dual Opteron machine for.

Wow, nice board.
1) You can download and install any kernel with slackware 9.1, since it's
got the necessary glibc versions for 2.6 kernel.
2) SuSE is nice for desktops, honestly, but I don't think it's meant for the
server, when compared to Slackware/Redhat or FreeBSD, but that's just what
I've read on the internet.
3) SuSE is rpm-based, and I never liked rpm's. Support will be only for
installation. However, it will look very nice, and it has graphical
interfaces for configuring firewall and such.
4) With any linux, if you can, specify your hard drive to the kernel before
boot (hda=1023,256,63 where hda is the drive (hd = ide drive, a = first
drive, first channel, 1023=cylinders, 256=heads, 63 = sectors per track,
etc) and disable RAID if the first boot attempt fails. Go by what the hard
drive says on it for cylinders/heads/sectors/tracks.
5) Uh, if you're not installing GUI, then SuSE is a waste of time, in my
opinion. If you want secure, slackware would seem to be more configurable,
but then again there's IMMUNIX, which is meant for servers and for
ultra-security.

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| On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:05:08 +0100, Jacek K. B³aszkowski
<rainman@polbox.com> wrote:
|
|>This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156)
|
|
| Usenet and MIME don't play nicely together.
|
| I'd pick one... PGP/MIME or Usenet.
|
| When we were playing with PGP/MIME here a year or two back... some
posts
| actually caused kmail to hang for several minutes (admittedly on a
| slower laptop computer).
|

If alt.os.linux.slackware was the only group I post to, there would
not be any problem. But on the other newsgroups people often complain
about inline signing, so I have a dilemma
Does kmail still have this problem?
Regards, jkb

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:44:00 +0100, Jacek K. B³aszkowski <rainman@polbox.com> wrote:
> Does kmail still have this problem?

I don't know... and accidentally typo'd ... or something ... it was
knode that had the problem.

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"Jacek K. B?aszkowski" <rainman@polbox.com> wrote:
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pgp trash troll delete

> If alt.os.linux.slackware was the only group I post to, there
> would not be any problem. But on the other newsgroups people
> often complain about inline signing, so I have a dilemma Does
> kmail still have this problem?
> Regards, jkb

We don't mind inline signing as long as it doesn't include pgp
trash. You are asked, cordially, to refrain from using pgp in the
future unless it is absolutely necessary.

cordially, as always,

rm

ASDFDSA@asFDad.org wrote:
> pgp trash troll delete
You are asked, cordially, to refrain from using pgp in the
> future unless it is absolutely necessary.
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm
trol,troll,troll,troll...whatever...

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AthlonRob wrote:
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| On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:44:00 +0100, Jacek K. B³aszkowski
<rainman@polbox.com> wrote:
|
|>Does kmail still have this problem?
|
|
| I don't know... and accidentally typo'd ... or something ... it was
| knode that had the problem.
|
I do not know either - I have not ever used neither kmail nor knode.
But it is quite popular among my university friends and they never
complained about pgp/mime - maybe in newer versions the problem is solved.
Regards - jkb

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