> On Nov 22, 2023, at 11:20 PM, Peter via Postfix-users > <postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote: > > On 23/11/23 14:22, Gerald Galster via Postfix-users wrote: >>> Q2: >>> given the minuscule work-load, is there any preference/preclusion between >>> employing the 'usual' x86 processor or 2 Arm Ampere processors? Both offer >>> Linux. Cost is effectively same. >> You should check if the software you want to use is available >> for the desired platform. Distributions might provide dovecot >> packages for ARM while the official dovecot repository might >> not. Then you would have to compile the sources yourself. > > This ^^^^^. Specifically if you want to run an EL distro there are good > choices that offer ARM support and come with stock postfix and dovecot > packages, but if you want to run the GhettoForge packages (which have newer > versions of Postfix and Dovecot than that offered by the stock distros) then > I'm afraid you're stuck with x86_64 for now. Similarily you might have > issues with other supporting software that is only available from 3rd-party > repos or where 3rd-party repos have newer versions taht you want to use, but > not for ARM.
Is this a common thing with Linux distros? I've not dabbled there in ages, but on the various *BSDs they tend to have a designation for each architecture, for example FreeBSD at some point moved most ARM variants to "Tier 1" which generally means there's parity with x86 for the average user. Charles > k > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org > To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
