-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFK2CSjfg746kcGBOwRArzHAKCOeDyDXCrPYrZQ6pDMHvyrsxxHOQCgvog5 cK9LfaI2GZivlWEfWNSwSpQ= =NtFE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----