16 Oct
2009
16 Oct
'09
9:45 a.m.
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thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: | Hi, | |> Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, |> postfix, mysql, etc. | | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? | | If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with Debian on | Sparc, and NetBSD. | | S.
IIRC there were (and maybe, still are) difficulties of Linux using the (P)MMU in SPARC(64) CPUs, resulting in performance hits. I'm not sure if it was fixed (during the years), though.
Timo
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