On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:01:10AM +0200, Roger wrote: > I installed FC5 x86_64 to run Qmail on it and the consequences were > disastrous, every 4-7 days the machine kept going down, i was losing What was causing the machine to go down? I know the unpatched version of Qmail isn't 64-bit clean, but that shouldn't bring down the whole system. > in my opinion i386 is much better as for x86_64, a lot of people are > still experimenting and you would just be asking for trouble if you make > this into a production server All decent server software should be 64-bit clean for years now. This shouldn't be an issue. But really, you're tempting fate to use any version Fedora on a production server. If you need free, CentOS fills this part of the ecosystem. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
