>> 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. >> >> 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. > > 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?