[Fedora-sparc] Fedora Sparc in Production

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday, May 05, 2011 11:45:39 AM A E [Gmail] wrote:
> Anyone else wants to chime in also, please feel free as clearly this is a
> big decision to try and use it in production running a high-traffic
> application, in particular a VoIP switch.

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.