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Solaris 10. Top notch OS, and comes with ZFS. As does OpenSolaris. Recommend to max it out on RAM.

Max out RAM? 16gb? How do you figure that?

Apache and MySQL will definitely benefit from it, but if you don't plan on running a busy production server, 2-4GB will probably do.

I was rather thinking along the lines of how I set up the V100 I got last year, but it supports only 2GB ;)

Hi Nate,

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I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge on distros that are stable on Sparc.

I *think* debian is the only "major" distro left that supports SPARC to the fullest extent. Though watch out if your running the latest T1/T2 type processors, last I checked kernel support for those was somewhat limited still.

It has two 1.5 GHz UltraSPARC processors, from what I see.

-Jason

m.roth@5-cent.us wrote on 10/15/2009 05:01 PM:

Hey, folks,

yum is telling me that I need to update openjdk on several servers. HOWEVER, they've all got openjdk-plugin installed, and yum doesn't want to update, and tells me there's no openjdk-plugin package to install, at least for 5.3.

What I see, googling, is the workaround is to install Sun's java.... Is there any openjdk-plugin for java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5? If not, and the servers have users running X, is there any reason for either upgrading, or for that matter, even installing openjdk, instead of the officious <g> Sun jdk?

Please avoid thread hijacking.

Known bug. Workarounds are linked from http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3574

Phil

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thus Marcelo M. Garcia spake:

ML wrote:

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HI All,

Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc.

-Jason

Hi

There are some options, like Debian or Fedora 11 in case of Linux or something different try FreeBSD.

The best BSD on SPARC surely is OpenBSD:

http://openbsd.org/sparc64.html

Have several load balancers based on those running here, like a charm :)

Regards

mg.

HTH,

Timo

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Larry Vaden wrote:

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM, ML mailinglists@mailnewsrss.com wrote:

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I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS.

Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc.

NetBSD?

Don't know if NetBSD is supported on this machine, but I had it running on a (peeceeish) Ultra 5/440MHz UltraSPARC IIi. It was blazingly fast, absolutely awesome. The fastest OS I ever installed on it (there was GNU/Linux, Solaris 9 of course, and OpenBSD). Back then, there was no OpenSolaris existing.

Have fun!

Timo

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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