On 12/29/2009 11:13 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote:
My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest.
Hi Jason,
I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there any CentOS versions that support Sparc?
IIRC there was CentOS 4.6, but I'm not sure. Is it a 'Sun Ultra 5' or a 'SPARCstation 5'?
Or recommendations? I know OpenBSD does,
Yes, and it does it perfectly.
but I am more versed in Solaris and versions like Slackware or CentOS or Ubuntu.
Solaris support will end with Solaris 9, maybe you can tweak it to run Solaris 10, but I'm not sure. I had an Ultra 10/440 some years ago, I think I remember that there were issues back then.
He also says that ZFS rules all
Yap, it's nice. If he wants ZFS and maybe wants to become a great hacker, he may want to have a look at FreeBSD for sparc64; it's not a first tier architecture, so there maybe some adventures during installation/use, but it could be worth a try... ;)
and is pissed Apple did not adopt it.
Nah, they didn't need it for their iPods. Or do they still build computers (or, 'Mac'-labeled PeeCee hardware)? SCNR.
Kids will be kids!
-Jason
HTH,
Timo