On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 14:20 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > As much as I love Fedora, and on SPARC, and use it myself, if you're looking for something that is more 'supported' > I would suggest Debian. I'm not sure how much longer that will be the case, however. > If it being a Linux distribution is not a hard requirement, then NetBSD and OpenBSD are both available for SPARC and SPARC64 > and are both solid performers. > > I have used Aurora of several versions in production, as well as using SuSE 7.3 SPARC several years back, > and I am using the F12 beta for SPARC on a couple of boxes now, but if you need a degree of support, well, > SPARC is a secondary arch for Fedora, and even though Dennis is giving it a good run it is still a Secondary > and not primary supported architecture. > > But for a production box with high visibility (as a VoIP server would be) you may be better served by Debian or OpenBSD; > it depends on how stuck on using Fedora or a fedora-ish Linux you are. Or how stuck on using SPARC you are: your call. > _______________________________________________ I am still running Aurora-Linux on my Netra-T105. As long as you don't want anything fancy, i would still recommend it COTS intel stuff is very nice, but the seldom reach the age of five years when running 24/7. With Sparc stuff no problem: some of them are beyond 20 years! Unfortunately they were too good for this world ;-( hw _______________________________________________ sparc mailing list sparc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc
