Re: [Fedora-sparc] Fedora Sparc in Production
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 16:59 -0400, A E [Gmail] wrote:
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Hans Witvliet
<hwit(a)a-domani.nl>
wrote:
I am still running Aurora-Linux on my Netra-T105.
As long as you don't want anything fancy, i would still
recommend it
I see, interesting. I'm starting to lean towards giving this a go,
even though most people have pointed out the issue with constant
updates to the Sparc port and them not being in sync with the updates
available on the same number x86 release.
Lastly, Hans, I am not really sure what "fancy" would be ....I'd think
it's kinda relative as to what defines 'fancy'. If running a VoIP
server on it, along with a bunch of modules/plugins etc on it is
fancy, well then I'm in trouble I guess :( I know people are running
that same software on Fedora on COTS x86/x86_64 machines (possibly in
production) but does that mean I can successfully run it on the SPARC
port?
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Well, if it is just lamp, ldap etc etc, it just works out of the box.
I can't tell iv any flavour of virtualisation will work, as my machine
just have 512MB mem in them.
In case you have something that creates lots of hw-interrupts, you are
probably far better off with sparc archticture:
Due to backwards compatibility intel based PC's still have to be
compatible with the very old IBM-PC design.
If it is just sip/iax you want, why not? I presume you don't want to
stream & convert a couple of hundreds hifi connections...
Even for that, there are some debates wether intel or amd is better ;-)
otoh, with those new intel-boxes, one can take advantage of the latest
cpu-enhancements (AES-intructions), nice for encryption (vpn/disk)
and you can use high-res video boards.
Hans