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 ;-(
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