[Fedora-sparc] Fedora Sparc in Production

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Hans Witvliet <hwit at 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
>
> 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
>
> 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.

I also have yet another question and this may be one of the other silly
questions, but are CentOS / RHEL rpms compatible with Fedora? As I
mentioned, one of the biggest reasons I want to try out Fedora or any Redhat
based Distro is primary because of the driver availability of some of the
hardware I need to use as well as the core application i.e. VoIP switch is
all developed and best supported on them. However, the driver argument will
fail if I'm unable to install the RPMs built for RHEL on Fedora. Is that
usually seamless or is there some package conversion, unpack, convert,
repack kinda voodoo magic involved?

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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